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#Nigeria announced the issuance of N100billion ($328million) sukuk, which brings to close a process that started last year. The first sign of the process was given last year by Alhaji Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Finance. He said that sukuk could be linked to a wide range of projects from power plants to railways. The sukuk is a 7-year tenor debt instrument which will go on sale from June 28, 2017, for three days via book building. It will be traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the FMDQ Securities Exchange OTC platform. Dr. Abraham Nwakwo, Director General of the Debt Management Office, said the sukuk was part of the plan to fast track the development of infrastructure and engage in project-tied capital raising.

Nigeria hopes to use a proposed Sukuk issuance programme to help fund big infrastructure needs. The country plans to borrow as much as $10 bn from debt markets to help fund a budget deficit worsened by the slump in oil prices that has slashed revenues and weakened the naira. Secretary of finance Alhaji Mahmoud Isa-Dutse said the federal government is working on a sovereign sukuk with details expected within the year. In 2013, Nigeria's Osun State issued 10 bn naira ($62 mn) of sukuk, but no other sukuk transactions have followed.

Nigeria hopes to use a proposed Sukuk issuance programme to help fund big infrastructure needs. The country plans to borrow as much as $10 bn from debt markets to help fund a budget deficit worsened by the slump in oil prices that has slashed revenues and weakened the naira. Secretary of finance Alhaji Mahmoud Isa-Dutse said the federal government is working on a sovereign sukuk with details expected within the year. In 2013, Nigeria's Osun State issued 10 bn naira ($62 mn) of sukuk, but no other sukuk transactions have followed.