Nigeria's Greatest Potential Is Its Incredibly Energetic, Entrepreneurial People - VP

22 May 2018

"We have grown our taxpayer base by 5 million new taxpayers; from 14 million in 2016 to 19 million today, as part of efforts to diversify Nigeria's revenue base and to bring more people and businesses into the formal sector.

"Our Sovereign Wealth Fund, as I said, has gone way up, especially with the fresh investments, a new investment of about $640 million, and this is devoted to infrastructure. We have put together an infrastructure fund, which we hope will, in the next few weeks, be launched. And we expect that this infrastructure fund will be the beginning of some of the work that we intend to do on road infrastructure in particular. This, of course, will offer fresh opportunities for those who would want to either partner with us in the PPPs that we intend to do in roads and other infrastructure, or those we simply want to contract.

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