Companies from Sweden and Czechia have teamed up with the Nigerian government to offer houses built partly from rice straw. Sweden’s Our Ecolution and Czech firm Ekopanely both make boards…

Swiss cement-maker Holcim has sold its 84% stake in Lafarge Africa to Huaxin Cement of China. The $1bn deal is subject to approvals, but is expected to be confirmed in…

With new powers to develop independent electricity supplies, the Nigerian state of Lagos has invited bidders to express interest in building a series of gas-fuelled power plants totaling 4GW of…

Nigerian officials say they’re going ahead with a new $3.5bn port on the Bakassi peninsula, in the extreme south-east of country, local media reports.

The governments of Nigeria and Libya have started talks about building a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline between their countries. Nigeria’s oil minister Ekperikpe Ekpo spoke with his Libyan counterpart Khalifa…

Nigeria’s National Petroleum Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Engineering and Machinery Corporation (CEMC) to build a gas power plant near the capital, Abuja.  Posting on…

MTN Nigeria announced on Saturday that it was planning to build West African largest data centre, business website Nairametrics reports. The company, which is based in South Africa, has not…

The government of Nigeria this week said it is planning to build a 1,000km highway between the coastal town of Badagry and the city of Sokoto in the northwest.  According…

Nigeria plans to spend $2bn on a 700km coastal highway between the commercial capital of Lagos and the port of Calabar near its border with Cameroon.

Nigeria plans to build a “Diaspora City” for the 20 million of its citizens who live in other countries. The idea is to give emigrants, who together send $24bn back…

Nigeria’s Ministry of Transportation has obtained $1.3bn in funding to complete its northern rail link between Kano, the country’s second largest city after Lagos, and Maradi, the second largest city…

Two South Korean engineers working for Daewoo Engineering & Construction have been released, nearly three weeks after they were abducted by unidentified gunmen in Nigeria, the foreign ministry in Seoul…

China and Nigeria agreed to build an EV battery factory in the African country at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Photovoltaics specialist Shenzhen LEMI Technology Development Company will invest…

Nigeria’s science and infrastructure agency says it has reached non-binding agreements with Chinese companies covering projects in Nigeria worth a combined $6bn. The agreements came out of talks held during…

The governor of Lagos State in Nigeria has announced that ground will be broken on a $100m studio complex before the end of this month. Speaking at a press conference…

A stalled project to build a 170m tower in the Nigerian capital Abuja will be finished in the next two years, according to Nyesom Wike, minister for the federal capital…

The World Bank plans to help fund 1,000 solar power mini grids to bring electricity to the 86 million Nigerians without access to it. Reuters reports that bank president Ajay…

Portuguese contractor Mota-Engil has signed a $916m deal with Nigeria’s Ministry of Transportation to supply and finance railway rolling stock for the new, $2bn Kano–Maradi–Dutse railway. This is a 284km…