NSIA, World Bank to fund power, ports projects in Nigeria
•Set to launch Nigeria Infrastructure Finance Guarantee Platform
By Emma Ujah,  
The Nigeria Sovereign Wealth Fund (NSIA) and the World Bank are working towards financing large scale power and ports infrastructure projects in Nigeria.
Briefing the press on the 2025 financials of the Authority in Abuja yesterday, NSIA’s Managing Director, Mr. Aminu Umar-Sadiq, said to this effect the Nigeria Infrastructure Finance Guarantee Platform (NIFGP) would soon be launched.
NIFGP is a joint initiative between the NSIA and the World bank designed to catalyse private sector investment in infrastructure  projects
He stated: “Financing and execution of large scale infrastructure projects for a country as large as ours, with the demography, with the size of GDP, I think it is important for NSIA to lead the way in finding sustainable solutions for funding large scale projects, not mid-sized or small size projects, but large scale projects, and it will be a combination of a project preparator
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Publication Date: Tue 7th April, 2026