Nigeria

Infrastructure financing in Nigeria for both the public and private sectors is predominantly sourced from a mix of sources: the annual budget of the Federal Government of Nigeria (“FGN”), the private sector through traditional commercial bank loans, and from development finance institutions such as the Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC”) and the African Development Bank (“AfDB”), […]

In December, the ICED facility hosted a number of Quarterly Lessons Learnt (QLL) sessions. This quarter we shared learnings and hosted discussion from Urban Research Nigeria. Attached are slides from the session. What makes an effective city in a challenging environment? Nigeria has a long history of urbanisation and urban development that distinguishes it from […]

Despite being the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria is severely constrained by low quality, decaying infrastructure and inadequate power supply. Responding to these constraints DFID established the Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility (NIAF), a demand driven technical assistance programme to support more Phase 1 ran from November 2007 to November 2011 (£32.6 million). NIAF II continued […]