Nigeria is planning to establish a central investor desk within the Federal Ministry of Finance in 2026 to fix fragmented communication and inconsistent policy signaling with stakeholders and investors.
According to reports, the desk’s existence will sharpen policy communication, improve transparency and restore confidence among domestic and foreign investors after years of macroeconomic volatility.
The Ministry of Finance in a statement said this would also serve as an interface between the government and existing and prospective investors, development finance institutions, credit rating agencies, and market analysts.
“To deepen investor confidence, improve transparency, and ensure sustained engagement with domestic and international capital providers, the federal government will establish a central investor desk housed within the Federal Ministry of Finance,” said Mrs Doris Uzoka-Anite, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Finance.
She said the desk would focus on “consistent communication, timely disclosure and proactive engagement” around macroeconomic policy, reform progress and investment execution.
The initiative forms part of a broader 2026 economic agenda that seeks to move Africa’s most populous economy from a phase of stabilisation into one of expansion, following two years of far-reaching but disruptive reforms under President Bola Tinubu.
Those reforms — including exchange-rate unification, energy market restructuring and fiscal tightening — helped correct long-standing distortions but also weighed on growth and investor sentiment in the short term.
This comes at a time that inflation has cooled to 14.45 per cent and economic growth is gradually picking up.
The investor desk is also expected to support deal flow. Engagements coordinated through the platform will focus on building investment pipelines, deploying blended finance solutions and accelerating the execution of projects across priority sectors, including energy, agribusiness, manufacturing, housing, healthcare, digital services and solid minerals.
The government has also pledged to restructure domestic debt to reduce short-term interest burdens and ease pressure on financial markets.
Mrs Uzoka-Anite said the administration understands that credibility will be judged by delivery rather than declarations. By centralizing investor engagement and aligning it with macroeconomic coordination and development finance, the government hopes to convert Nigeria’s scale and reform momentum into sustained capital inflows, job creation and faster growth starting in 2026.