By Udeme Akpan There are indications that the construction of the Ibom Deep Seaport (IDSP) will soon start following the advertisement of the Request for Qualification (RFQ) from reputable private sector port operators in partnership with the Akwa Ibom State Government and the Federal Government. The RFQ is a major step critical towards the implementation of the IDSP project, apparently one of the most promising Public- Private Partnership (PPP) initiatives in Africa because of the […]

Event Date: January 24th, 2018, 08:30 – 09:30 EST Railways are capital intensive and require regular investment to function effectively. The public sector cannot always meet the investment needs, which has created strong interest in mobilizing private investment in the railway sector. A new edition of “Railway Reform: A Toolkit for Improving Rail Sector Performance” explains how private financing can be attracted to the sector, with updated and expanded chapters on financing and governance and […]

THE Federal Government and the Akwa Ibom State government will begin the procurement for the Ibom Deep Seaport (IDSP) project this month. A statement from the technical committee of the project recently said the procurement process will begin with seeking for private sector port developer/operators. It noted that the committee has chosen Global Maritime and Port Services Pte Ltd (GMAPS) of Singapore as the Transaction Advisor while PwC, Nigeria is the Project Manager. It said […]

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 World Bank Group: from new knowledge products and tools, to innovations and success … As we look at our top […]

Submitted by Darwin Marcelo Does experience in implementing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) reduce a country’s chances of contract failure? In a recent study entitled Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPPs, we set out to empirically test whether general PPP experience impacts the success of projects—in this case, captured by a project’s ability to forego the most extreme forms of failure that lead to cancellation. We learned from individual country and project-based cases that many […]

Today, in the full glare of the public and as a solid sign of the Ease of Doing Business and transparency in PPP procurement drive of HE President Muhammed Buhari, commercial offers for supply, operate and maintain of a self sufficient utility scale solar PV plant happened at the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing (Power Sector) with the ICRC providing appreciated regulatory guidance. The effort is part of the Ministry’s initiative aimed at […]

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties to design, build and finance the Lakeshore West Corridor Infrastructure Improvements project. The infrastructure upgrades are required to accommodate the planned expansion of GO Transit rail service on the Lakeshore West line. GO Transit is the regional public rail system for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), in Southern Ontario. The Lakeshore West line runs from Union Station in Toronto to Hamilton, with summer weekend and holiday excursion service extending to Niagara Falls. The RFQ outlines the scope of work […]

The Government of Ghana (GoG), through the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and the Ministry of Railways Development (MoRD) and their respective agencies, namely; Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA), Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA)and the Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA), hosted a market sounding event for the Boankra Inland Port and the Eastern Railway Line project last week. The event took place on Wednesday, 6th December. The project aims to ease the congestion at the main ports in Ghana, the Tema and Takoradi ports, and also to bring import and export services […]

“The nation has a huge infrastructure deficit for which we require foreign capital and expertise to supplement whatever resources we can marshal at home. In essence, increased engagement with the outside world is called for as we seek public-private partnerships in our quest for enhanced capital and expertise. This is the way of the new world for all countries in the 21st century.” – HE President Muhammadu Buhari Within the first 100 days of his administration, […]

The Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje has expressed the willingness of the state to embrace public-private partnership (PPP) to revive the ailing cotton industry in the state. Ganduje stated this at a workshop for financial journalists with theme: ‘The Role of Nigeria Banking Sector: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way forward’ organised by the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) in Kano recently. “We need public private investment to revive the cotton industry,” Ganduje, who was […]

Public Private Partnership, (PPP) has proven to be a veritable tool in the development of infrastructural facilities all over the world. Thus, in line with one of the indicative parameters of Vision 20:2020 – the blueprint designed by the government to make Nigeria one of the world’s best 20 economies by 2020, the Federal Government is making moves towards a massive upgrade of infrastructure across several sectors. Over twenty (20) projects are lined up for […]