The Infrastructure Conversation: Ada Osakwe and Rachel Moré-Oshodi with Temitope Iluyemi | ABS Live

Power makes up about 40% of business costs in Africa, and policy alone cannot move goods. Ada Osakwe, Founder of Agrolay Ventures and Nuli Foods, and Rachel Moré-Oshodi, MD and CEO of ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment Limited, join Dr. Temitope Iluyemi, MD of TopeIL Impact Advisory, at ABS Live, UNGA 81. They discuss how to build and finance the infrastructure African businesses need to trade and compete. Osakwe makes the case for putting investment into food corridors and industrial zones instead of isolated projects. Moré-Oshodi explains how ARM-Harith has spent a decade bringing domestic pension capital into infrastructure and removing currency mismatch at the project level. The conclusion: closing Africa’s infrastructure gap means building integrated corridors that connect farmers and manufacturers to regional value chains, and unlocking African pension and institutional capital to finance that growth. Recorded at ABS Live, September 22, 2026, Akin LLP, New York. Building Businesses That Build Africa. #ABSLive #UNGA81 #Infrastructure #AfCFTA #ARMHarith #AfricanBusiness