11.02.2014 - Nigeria wealth fund gets $550 mln to support power market
Nigeria provided $550 million to its Sovereign Wealth Fund to help guarantee power trading and spur investments to build the country’s electricity market, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said. Out of the fund, $350 million will be used as “liquidity facility” for the state-owned electricity trader, which guarantees power sales by producers to distribution companies, Okonjo-Iweala told reporters today in the capital, Abuja. The remaining $200 million “will be for the infrastructure fund for gas-to-power investments.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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