NIRSAL Connect
Abdulaziz Salihu is an Analyst at NIRSAL Connect, working on de-risking agriculture and facilitating agribusiness in Nigeria. Abdulaziz also serves as a Graduate Member of the Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Students at Modibbo Adama University of Technology, where their research work focuses on the antioxidant activity of Andrographis paniculata methanol leaf extract and its alkaloids and flavonoids content.
NIRSAL Connect
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing system for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) was launched in 2011 and incorporated in 2013 by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a dynamic, holistic USD500 Million public-private initiative to catalyse the flow of finance and investments into fixed agricultural value chains. NIRSAL seeks to address the causes of low funding levels in the agriculture sector, including lack of understanding of the sector, perceived high risks, complex credit assessment processes/procedures, and high transaction costs.