The Africa Finance Company (AFC) and Nigerian Change Restricted (NGX) have partnered to strengthen Nigeria’s capital markets, aiming to finance the nation’s huge infrastructure deficit, estimated to succeed in $2.3 trillion by 2043.
The 2 establishments have concluded a two-day capacity-building programme designed to strengthen the technical capabilities required to construction and finance infrastructure initiatives by Nigeria’s capital markets.
The 2-day workshop, held on November 17 and 18, 2025, in Lagos, convened professionals from regulatory businesses, institutional buyers, challenge sponsors, and monetary establishments to strengthen capability in challenge and infrastructure finance, and to discover how Nigeria’s capital markets can function a important platform for financing sustainable infrastructure.
The workshop was convened to handle the pressing want for modern financing mechanisms able to mobilising long-term home capital into bankable infrastructure alternatives.
The chief board member and head of Monetary Companies at AFC, Banji Fehintola, stated, “Closing the continent’s funding hole requires constructing native experience and strong market buildings that may assist complicated, long-term initiatives. At AFC, we’re dedicated to advancing not solely challenge financing but additionally the complete framework required to ship bankable, sustainable infrastructure options.
“Our partnership with NGX displays our perception that Nigeria’s capital markets can and should play a pivotal position in mobilising the size of home assets required to drive the nation’s long-term improvement.”
The chief government officer of NGX, Jude Chiemeka, highlighted the significance of deepening experience throughout the market, saying, “as capital markets assume a extra central position in financing Africa’s improvement, constructing technical depth throughout the complete ecosystem turns into important.”
In response to him, by NGX X-Academy, our devoted capacity-building platform, we’re equipping market individuals with the specialised information required to originate, construction and handle infrastructure belongings that meet each native wants and international funding requirements. This collaboration with AFC is an important step in making certain that Nigeria and the broader area develop the institutional capabilities to draw and deploy affected person capital on a big scale.
The workshop marks a milestone within the rising collaboration between AFC and NGX, reinforcing their shared dedication to unlocking sustainable, market-led infrastructure financing. Each establishments plan to construct on this momentum by follow-up initiatives geared toward deepening engagement and translating insights from the programme into tangible financing options for important infrastructure initiatives.
Over the two-day programme, individuals explored frameworks for challenge structuring, danger allocation and credit score enhancement- instruments important for bringing infrastructure belongings to market. The classes additionally examined rising capital market devices, together with inexperienced bonds, infrastructure REITs, blended finance buildings and partial danger ensures, highlighting sensible pathways to mobilise long-term home and worldwide capital for infrastructure.
