Addressing Africa’s Infrastructure Funding gaps

Nigeria Returns to the Market with N100 billion Sukuk Offer By: Mohammed Abu Abdul Aziz Adewuyi Abdul Rahman of the Universiti Utra of Malaysia,in his abstract of his paper titled,” Sub-Sahara’s Infrastructure Funding Gap: Potentials from Sukuk Financing” notes that,Sub-Sahara African (SSA) region as a large part of the African continent suffers huge infrastructure deficit mainly as a result of the vast funding gap. The negative impact of the infrastructure deficiency continues to constrain socioeconomic development and the general well-being of the people of the region. Heavy reliance on the…