Adoption of Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure and Service Delivery

The Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Mr Chidi Izuwah, said on Wednesday that about 135,000 kilometres of road network in the country were un-tarred. Izuwah said this in Abuja at the 2017 Otis Anyaeji and Nigerian Society of Engineers Annual lecture. He spoke on the theme “Transportation Infrastructure as a Catalyst for Economic Diversification…

Nigeria made top class in the “2017 year in review” ranking of the World Bank Group (WBG) Public Private Partnerships (PPP) blogs. According to Yelena Osipova-Stocker,  the Online Communications Officer for the Infrastructure, PPPs and Guarantees Group of the WBG; “2017 was a busy year in the world of infrastructure and public-private partnerships at the…

  ICRC targets N3.2trn Launches PPP disclosure web portal The Federal Government is committed to making fundamental changes that would facilitate rapid provision of infrastructure development, which has remained a huge challenge to the country’s economic growth. This is even as the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) says it is targeting about N3.2 trillion to…

Across Africa, the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model has become increasingly critical as both a funding and operational mechanism for social and economic infrastructures. The World Bank established that a target of $93 billion per year is required to meet the infrastructural needs of sub-Saharan Africa. This lack of infrastructure makes it difficult for African…