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 Plan of Action : Addressing Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS (GBV/HIV/AIDS) Intersections 2015-2017

Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Nigeria

The goal of this plan is to significantly reduce by 30% the incidence of gender-based violence through prevention education and ensure that integrated GBV/HIV services are available at all levels.

Nigeria • 2015 • Gender and Human Rights

Nigerian Electricity Supply And Installation Standards Regulations 2015

Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Nigeria

This document describes the requirements regulating the generation, transmission, distribution, and user’s site standards, guides, and recommended practices for use in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). This document makes a general provision for the...

Nigeria • 2015 • Energy

Independent National Electoral Commission (Manual for Election Officials -Updated Version) 2015

Independent National Electoral Commission, Nigeria

The electoral operations support centre is an early warning system that supports key activity areas of election day. It maintains surveillance, monitors compliance, identifies threats, delivers the fit-for-purpose response, and coordinates active interaction of field...

Nigeria • 2015 • Democracy and Governance

Smart Card Reader Accreditation Backend Transmission System

Independent National Electoral Commission, Nigeria

These regulations and guidelines are developed in pursuant to the powers conferred by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and the electoral act 2010 (as amended), the Independent National Electoral...

Nigeria • 2015 • Democracy and Governance

National Irrigation and Drainage Policy and Strategy

Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Nigeria

Nigeria’s irrigation and drainage policy is designed to reposition the sub sector and open up the investment space for intensified and diversified irrigated agriculture in Nigeria where there is clear comparative advantage. It is designed...

Nigeria • 2015 • Infrastructure and Construction

National Seed Policy

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

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

Nigeria • 2015 • Agriculture and Rural Development

National Biosafety Management Agency Act, 2015 Explanatory Memorandum

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

This Act establishes the National Biosafety Management Agency charged with the responsibility for providing the regulatory framework, the institutional and administrative mechanism for safety measures in the application of modern biotechnology in Nigeria with the...

Nigeria • 2015 • Health

Nigeria’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

Government, Nigeria

To address the increasing importance of climate change issues in Nigeria, the Federal Executive Council adopted in 2012 the Nigeria Climate Change Policy Response and Strategy. To ensure an effective national response to the significant...

Nigeria • 2015 • Democracy and Governance

National Irrigation And Drainage Policy And Strategy

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This document presents the irrigation and drainage policy and strategy for improving irrigation and drainage development and management in Nigeria to achieve the broad goals of the agricultural sector, which are: (a) food and raw...

Nigeria • 2015 • Infrastructure and Construction

Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (Amendment) Act, 2015

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

This is an Act to amend the Nigerian Institute Of Animal Science Act, No. 26 of 2007 to properly define the Institute’s regulatory role, enforce the provisions of the Act and provide penalties for breach...

Nigeria • 2015 • Agriculture and Rural Development

National Sugar Development Council Act Explanatory Memorandum

Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria

This Act seeks to amend the National Sugar Development Council Act to abolish the ten per cent surcharge on sugar imports and make provisions for alternate funding of the existing National Sugar Development Council.

Nigeria • 2015 • Trade, Industry and Investment

Manual for Training Doctors and Nurse/Midwives on Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) Methods (Trainer's Manual)

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

Developed by the Federal Ministry of Health, Marie Stopes International Organisation Nigeria (MSION), Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and other partners, this training document outlines the strategy to develop the...

Nigeria • 2015 • Health