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Nigeria

Africa’s most populous nation, 237.5 million strong, whose 2025 Eurobond drew more than $13 billion of orders for $2.35 billion of paper.

  • 237.5mCitizens, 2025
  • $13B+Orders for the 2025 Eurobond
  • $1.25BWorld Bank reform financing, 2026
Enter the Design Studio Read the Letter The three mandates

You are entering

The Perfect NigeriaDesign Studio

Where Nigerians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Nigeria: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life.

Become a Co-designer

Design Studio · Work with Perfect Nations

One mission. Three depths.

Every mandate makes the same four moves for Nigeria. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments and structures
  1. Mandate 01

    The Nation Briefing

    3 hours

    A private session for the people who decide.

    1. 01Identify the assetsThe five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaCoverage of 23.5 and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureThe instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsThe path to market, outlined.
    You leave withThe gap, named and sized
    Request a Nation Briefing
  2. Mandate 02

    The Blueprint Lab

    3 days

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    1. 01Identify the assetsThe ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaEach of the seven standards costed in Nigerian prices.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureOne financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsA term sheet and the partners to approach.
    You leave withThe structure, drawn
    Plan a Blueprint Lab
  3. Mandate 03

    The Sovereign Mandate

    End to end

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    1. 01Identify the assetsA full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaPerfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureThe full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsTaken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    You leave withA structure ready for market
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

For the Government of Nigeria, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

Nigeria in BloomNation Portrait · The Gallery
Perfect Nations™ · Letters to the NationsNigeria

Dear Nigeria,

Green, white and green: the green for your land and the white for peace, under a motto that asks for Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress. You are the most populous nation in Africa, and the world already competes to lend to you.

“The world lent you $2.35 billion in a single week. Now let a full table in every home be the return.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect Nations Read the full letter

Dispatches

Letters from the markets.

Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Nigeria, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Adaeze Okafor, Nation Steward of Nigeria.

All dispatches
Perfect Nations™ · State of NationsForthcoming

The first dispatch on Nigeria is in preparation.

Dispatches appear here as soon as they are published.

Design Studio · Writings

Write Perfect Nigeria into being.

An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Nigeria and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission.

Submit your writing or email contact@perfectnations.org

Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Nigeria closer to Perfect Capita.

  • 01

    The People

    237.5mCitizens, 2025

    64 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.

  • 02

    The Land

    77.1%Of land in farms and pasture

    The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.

  • 03

    The Forest

    18.9%Of land under forest

    Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.

  • 04

    The Water

    990 m³Renewable fresh water per person

    Below the scarcity line of 1,000 cubic metres: every drop must be stored, treated and reused.

  • 05

    The Power

    22%Of energy from renewables, 2021

    Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.

What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Nigeria toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below.

Sovereign Assets

Design Studio · Perfect Capita

The Nigeria wheel: held at 23.5 by food

Nigeria: coverage of the seven basic living standardsFOOD23.5WATER29.9SHELTER32.2ENERGY28EDUCATIONN/AHEALTH47LIVELIHOOD36COVERAGE23.5OF 100 · SET BY FOOD
  • To setPerfect CapitaThe yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Nigeria in its own prices.
  • To setThe price of Perfect NigeriaPerfect Capita times the population: the national bill, each year.
  • 23.5CoverageOut of 100, set by food, the standard Nigeria provides least.
  • ~182mThe GapNigerians who cannot always count on enough good food: 76 in every hundred.

The Living LineThe poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Nigeria at 23.5, by food, with energy at 28 and water at 29.9 next.

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Nigeria. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.

The Research · Capital Architecture

Nigeria borrows at scale and the world bids for it. Next, a full table in every home.

The record in figures

  • $2.35BEurobonds, 10-year and 20-year: $1.25B at 8.625% to 2036 and $1.10B at 9.125% to 2046; orders above $13BDebt Management Office, 2025
  • $1.25BNigeria Actions for Investment and Jobs Acceleration (NAIJA): Capital markets, power sector reform, trade and revenueWorld Bank, 2026
  • $500MSustainable Agricultural Value-Chains for Growth (AGROW): Up to one million farmersWorld Bank, 2026
  • $500MFinance for small businesses: Credit for micro, small and medium enterprisesWorld Bank, 2025

The register

  • GovernmentCompletedEurobonds, 10-year and 20-yearPriced November 2025 · International bond market$2.35B

    $1.25B at 8.625% to 2036 and $1.10B at 9.125% to 2046; orders above $13B

    The order book was more than five times the size of the issue: proof that capital will come when the case is clear.

    Federal Government of Nigeria

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveNigeria Actions for Investment and Jobs Acceleration (NAIJA)Approved June 2026 · Development policy financing$1.25B

    Capital markets, power sector reform, trade and revenue

    Supports reforms that deepen capital markets, speed electrification, lower trade barriers and widen access to good seed.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveSustainable Agricultural Value-Chains for Growth (AGROW)Approved 30 March 2026 · IDA credit$500M

    Up to one million farmers

    Links smallholder farmers to agribusiness through matching grants, better seed and fertiliser systems and digital advice.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveFinance for small businessesApproved December 2025 · Investment project financing$500M

    Credit for micro, small and medium enterprises

    Widens access to finance for the small firms that employ most Nigerians.

    World Bank

    Source

The Nigeria Newswire

State of Nations
Adaeze Okafor, Nation Steward of Nigeria

Adaeze OkaforNation Steward of Nigeria · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published.

Capital Architecture

Design Studio · Enterprises

Already working in Nigeria.

Suggest an enterprise
  • In preparation

    The enterprises building Perfect Nigeria

    The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Nigeria. Suggest one to include.

    Suggest an enterprise

Design Studio · Voices of Nigeria

Launching soon

The people already
building it.

The question every guest answers
“What does Nigeria already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

We are looking for the people with real stories from Nigeria: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive.

Nominate yourself Suggest a guest

The Nigeria Design Studio is open

Design Perfect Nigeria with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us. Every message receives a personal reply.

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Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators: population 2025, urban share, agricultural and forest land, renewable fresh water per person and renewable energy share, read 30 October 2026.
  2. Strict Perfect Capita inputs: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF water and sanitation, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and poverty lines, UNESCO completion and the WHO service coverage index (2023, via Our World in Data).
  3. International Monetary Fund and World Bank press releases for each register line, as linked.
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