NPPPC to host investors, government officials in Abuja summit

Nigeria Public Private Partnership Conference (NPPPC) is set to provide a platform where public and private sector players are brought together to facilitate infrastructure investment development in Nigeria.

Olukayode Fabunmi, managing partner of Business Law Academy and country director of NPPPC, told BusinessDay in an interview that “the conference will provide access to all investors on PPP projects in Nigeria, and this will enable them to know what is happening in Nigeria in partnership with Federal or state Governments. It gives the potential investors the opportunities to access PPP activities in Nigeria.”

According to Fabunmi, it is scheduled to be an information dissemination conference where activities at both the Federal and State levels are disclosed directly to interested parties and the public at large. It will also be an opportunity to have targeted business networking, where investors from China, Brazil, South Africa, and USA will have direct access to the key Government officials they intend to partner with for PPP collaborations.

“It is going to be a bridge builder between the investors and the government. Also, it is a platform for government to meet with the interested investors as against the private investor sending what they have to offer now, it is the government that will be the one to showcase their investment opportunities and needs,” Fabunmi said.

During the conference, organisers also expect to launch a yearbook, which will contain information on upcoming, ongoing and operational PPP projects in Nigeria by analyzing all national and state PPP transactions and pipeline projects in Nigeria.

In addition, the Nigeria Public Private Partnership – Capacity Building Fund (PPP – CBF) is also to be launched during the conference which commences next week Wednesday, 16th March 2016 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

NPPPC organizers project that over the next 5 years, PPP – CBF which was designed by Business Law Academy with technical assistance from International Project Finance Association and Global Infrastructure Hub will train 500 public sector officials from the 36 state governments and the Federal government in a specially designed intensive, residential PPP programme at University of Oxford, United Kingdom.