Nigeria Venture Plans to Raise $1.2 Billion to Fix Power Gap

  • Company to buy and sell electricity meters to households
  • Venture plans to issue 100 billion-naira bond next year

Market as day breaks in the Lugbe district of Abuja.

Photographer: KC Nwakalor/Bloomberg
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A Nigerian venture plans to raise 480 billion naira ($1.2 billion) over the next three years to buy electricity meters and help power distributors plug a revenue gap in Africa’s most populous nation.