How to best fund Nigeria’s infrastructure projects
By CNBC
09 February 2018 |
3:00 pm
According to Nigeria's Minister of budget and planning Udo Udoma, the government is seeking to raise the stock of infrastructure to at least 70 percent of GDP by 2043.
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