‘The Fund will be introduced during a high-level World Cooperative Day Press Conference on July 5, 2025, at the NAF Centre Hotel and Suites, Abuja, and officially launched on July 19, 2025.’
Siaka MOMOH
In a significant move to strengthen Nigeria’s cooperative economy and empower everyday citizens through safe and structured financial participation, Maistrade Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited has announced the launch of a $5 billion AssuredInvest Cooperative Trust Fund.
According to Benjamin Aduli, President/Chief Vision Officer of Maistrade “The Fund will be introduced during a high-level World Cooperative Day Press Conference on July 5, 2025, at the NAF Centre Hotel and Suites, Abuja, and officially launched on July 19, 2025”.
Aduli explained “It is not a public Investment, it is strictly a cooperative programme. The AssuredInvest Fund is not a public investment scheme or capital market product. It is a member-based cooperative initiative. It is more than an investment model, Through this fund, we are enabling millions of Nigerians to collectively shape their economic destiny through secure, trusted and inclusive cooperative finance,”
He said the event will showcase the fund’s structure, governance model, on-boarding process, and strategic partnership with banks, insurance underwriters, trustees and cooperative federations.
The AssuredInvest Fund represents one of the most ambitious cooperative financial inclusive initiative in Africa. It is expected to :
- Directly impact one million Nigerians through access to structured investment and credit;
- Inject billions of naira in cooperative financed capital project across all 36 states and FCT;
- Create over 250000 jobs through funded projects in agriculture, housing, MSMEs and education;
- Empower grassroots cooperatives , women, youth, and marginalized communities with ownership and dividends;
- Digitally onboard contributors nationwide and in the diaspora through the Maistrade portal and app;
- Catalyze trust in cooperative governance and full insurance-backed protection for every naira contributedwith trustee oversight.
For Ben Aduli, “This initiative signals a new era for cooperative finance – an era where trust, innovation and people-driven capital converge to build lasting national prosperity”.
