On the occasion of several public interventions and recently publicized, the Nigerian Minister of Finance and Coordinator of The Economy, Wale Edun, announced that the federal government will start a new phase of selling public assets to private investors during this year 2026.

The initiative is part of an approved strategy for a long time, aimed at optimizing the State's asset portfolio, to mobilizing private capital and generating fiscal revenue in a context of strong fiscal constraints. The process will be managed by the Office. of Public Enterprises (BPE), an enforcement agency created by the law on privatization and marketing in 1999, under the supervision of National Council on Privatization (NCP) , chaired by the Vice President of the Republic.

According to information communicated by the BPE, 91 federal assets have been identified as likely to be privatized or marketed. These assets include enterprises wholly owned by the State, partial participations, concessions and public-private partnerships. Sectoral distribution Approximate shows a predominance of oil and gas, which represent 25 to 30% of the assets identified, followed by electricity and energy (around 20%), agriculture and agro-industry (around 15%), industry and manufacturing (around 15%), aviation and transport (around 10%) and other sectors such as services, ports, hotels and petrochemicals (15 to 20%)