Nigeria

Currency: Naira (NGN)

Timezone: West Africa Time (UTC+1)

Nigeria is situated in West Africa where it shares its land border in the west with the Republic of Benin, in the east with Chad and Cameroon, and in the north with Niger—popularly referred to as the “Giant of Africa” due to its resources and population. The country is the most populous in Africa, with a population estimated to be over 207 million. The country has a very diverse ethnic group with over 100 languages. However, the major languages spoken in the country are Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo, with English regarded as the official language in the country. The climate of the country varies widely with equatorial south, tropical in the middle, and arid in the north, while the landscape consists of southern lowlands, plateaus, and hills in the north and mountains in the southeast.

The country adopts a federal presidential republic system of government comprising 36 states and Abuja the Federal Capital. The economy is heavily reliant on Petroleum and Petroleum Products as its main source of foreign exchange earnings and accounts for over 70 percent of government revenue. The challenges facing the country include erratic power supply, lack of infrastructure, terrorist insurgence, kidnapping, banditry, clashes between farmers and herders, pervasive corruption, internet fraud, and police brutality.

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National Strategy for the Scale-up of Chlorhexidine

Health, Nigeria

The strategy is aimed at reducing neonatal mortality rate through the use of Chlorhexidine and covers five main components: market and users; manufacturing and distribution; clinical and regulatory; policy, advocacy amd financing; and coordination.

Nigeria • 2016 • Health

Regulation For Mini-Grids, 2016

Energy and Natural Resources, Nigeria

This Guide provides a simplified summary of the regulation primarily for stakeholders in the offgrid renewable energy sector. It further provides some context for the regulation – including the definition and types of mini-grids, process...

Nigeria • 2016 • Energy

National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (Neeap), 2016 (2015-2030)

Energy and Natural Resources, Nigeria

The National Energy Policy (NEP) 2013 – a revised version of NEP 2003, emphasizes the effective and efficient use of energy and proposes major areas to be considered for energy efficiency and conservation including –...

Nigeria • 2016 • Energy

National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP), 2016 (2015-2030)

Energy and Natural Resources, Nigeria

The National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) sets out the implementation strategy for the National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy (NREEEP) (2015). It provides an overview on concrete policy and regulations, laws, incentives and...

Nigeria • 2016 • Energy

Rural Electrification Strategy And Implementation Plan (RESIP), 2016

Energy and Natural Resources, Nigeria

This guide provides a simplified summary of the RESIP. It provides context to the plan, goal, strategy, objectives, barriers, incentives, key provisions, key stakeholders, related policy and regulatory documents, and current implementation status.

Nigeria • 2016 • Energy

Sustainable Energy For All Action Agenda (SE4ALL), 2016

Energy and Natural Resources, Nigeria

The Sustainable Energy for All initiative focuses on driving actions and mobilizing commitments to positively transform the world’s energy systems as well as catalyze sustainable development. Its objectives are premised around the proposition that national...

Nigeria • 2016 • Energy

Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Open Data Policy

Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria

The objectives of this policy include: to increase transparency in government and business activities; to enhance revenue management in the extractive sector; to promote accountability and good governance; to reduce corruption in the sector; to...

Nigeria • 2016 • Energy

Consumer Protection Framework

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

The broad objective of the Framework is to enhance consumer confidence in the financial services industry and promote financial stability, growth and innovation.

Nigeria • 2016 • Finance

Nigeria Home Grown School Feeding Strategic Plan 2016-2020

Ministry of Education, Nigeria

The overarching intent of this strategy document is to articulate the strategy and vision of the Federal Government of Nigeria for a countrywide universal Home Grown School Feeding programme.

Nigeria • 2016 • Education

National Seed Policy

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria

The seed policy serves as a reference and guide to actors in the seed industry. It defines the position of the government on all imaginable staking points in the seed value chain.

Nigeria • 2015 • Agriculture and Rural Development

National Policy on Special Needs Education in Nigeria

Ministry of Education, Nigeria

This policy was developed to drive inclusion of persons with special needs, provide equity and access in a barrier free environment, maximize their potentials and nurture their intelligence, notwithstanding social, economic, political, religious, language and...

Nigeria • 2015 • Education

National Quality Assurance Policy For Medicines and Other Health Products

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

This policy sets the quality assurance process for pharmaceutical products from the stage of design through production, procurement, storage, distribution, and marketing. It targets players in the manufacturing procurement, and supply value chains of the...

Nigeria • 2015 • Health

National Tobacco Control Act, 2015

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

This Act outlines the regulation for the production, distribution, and marketing of tobacco or tobacco products in Nigeria. It clearly outlines Nigeria’s position against tobacco use and tobacco’s health effects on Nigerians. It also outlines...

Nigeria • 2015 • Health

June 9, 2022

Political Parties, Presidential Candidates and the Electoral Act 2022 

The Electoral Act 2022 seeks to update and standardize Nigeria’s elections. The introduction of technological changes such as an electronic database of registered voters and an electronic transmission system of votes is a welcome improvement. Restricting political appointees' involvement in the election process is also a step in the right direction. However, there is a fundamental issue with the new act — its endorsement of the indirect primary process.

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