The Securities and Trade Fee (SEC) has stated that it’s prioritising the mobilisation of long-term capital to bridge Nigeria’s infrastructure and sectoral gaps whereas additionally streamlining regulatory frameworks and aggressively facilitating the issuance of progressive {financial} devices that channel disciplined capital into productive sectors.
This was disclosed in a New Yr Message by the director heneral of the SEC, Dr Emomotimi Agama in Abuja, in keeping with a press release that was issued by the fee yesterday.
Agama said that in 2026, the Fee will facilitate the issuance of infrastructure bonds, inexperienced bonds, municipal bonds, and infrastructure-focused funds.
“Our objective is to draw long-term home and worldwide capital into roads, energy, rail, housing, and digital infrastructure, whereas making it simpler for state governments and infrastructure corporations to entry the market effectively.
“We’ll promote the itemizing of agribusiness corporations and create tailor-made itemizing home windows for agricultural cooperatives and value-chain corporations. Via commodity exchanges, agricultural funding trusts, and commodities-linked {financial} devices, we are going to de-risk agriculture, guarantee honest pricing for farmers, strengthen meals safety, and permit Nigerians to personal a stake within the nation’s breadbasket.
The DG disclosed that the SEC may even drive the revitalisation of Actual Property Funding Trusts (REITs) and introduce progressive reasonably priced housing bonds. These initiatives will unlock capital for mass housing supply, create new asset lessons for traders, and transfer hundreds of thousands of Nigerians nearer to homeownership.
In response to him, “We’re reviewing our guidelines to incentivise listings from small and medium-scale industries, with particular deal with manufacturing, automotive, prescribed drugs, and completed items. By offering affected person capital by way of the capital market, we are going to revitalise factories, cut back import dependency, create jobs, and place “Made in Nigeria” as a world model.
“The SEC will help Nigeria’s energy sector by way of infrastructure bonds, inexperienced power bonds, project-backed securities, and public–personal funding autos. We’ll assist unlock long-term capital for grid growth, renewable power tasks, embedded energy options, and power transition initiatives. By enhancing bankability constructions and attracting affected person capital into the facility worth chain, the capital market will help power safety” he said.
He said that because the new yr begins, the SEC is not merely turning a web page on the calendar; however is embracing a profound alternative—a possibility to redefine the very objective and energy of the Nigerian Capital Market.
“We glance again at a yr of transformation and look ahead to a future the place our capital market turns into the definitive answer supplier for Nigeria’s most urgent {economic} and developmental wants” he added.
