Nigeria’s choices for better infrastructure

Which investments, over the next 20 years, hold the greatest economic and human development benefits?

Date: 2017-12-06

Time: 14:30 to 17:00

Venue: Delegation of the European Union to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and ECOWAS, European Union Crescent, off Constitution Avenue, Abuja, Nigeria

RSVP: Anu Klaassens, Phone: +27 12 346 9500, Email: [email protected]

Nigeria’s basic physical infrastructure deficit severely undermines the country’s prospects for economic growth and development. On average, Nigeria’s African and global income peers have more extensive and better road networks, and better access to electricity, clean water and improved sanitation. Rapid population growth in Nigeria will compound the challenge of inadequate basic infrastructure.

Using the International Futures model, the ISS has analysed a series of ambitious but realistic interventions to accelerate Nigeria’s infrastructure development until 2040. This seminar will discuss these new research findings, and the report will be available at the event. 

This seminar is co-hosted with the delegation of the European Union to Nigeria, and funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.

Chair: Dapo Oyewole, Senior Public Sector Advisor, McKinsey and Co

Speakers:

Dr Julia Bello-Schünemann, Senior Researcher, ISS

Zachary Donnenfeld, Researcher, ISS

Richard Young, Deputy Head, European Union delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS

Imeh Okon, Special Advisor to the President on infrastructure

Keith Hammond, Infrastructure Adviser, DFID

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