Nigeria: Government Contracts, Procurement & PPP

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has introduced four key instruments to strengthen Nigeria’s cloud governance, digital infrastructure, and investment landscape: the National Cloud Computing Guideline 2026, National Cloud Technical Guideline 2026, National Digital Infrastructure Assurance Framework (NDIAF), and National Cloud Investment Strategy. The Guidelines, signed by the Director-General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, on 4 August 2026, are scheduled to take effect on 1 January 2027.1

Advocaat Law Practice presents its comprehensive monthly roundup of significant developments, regulatory changes, and emerging trends shaping Nigeria's energy and infrastructure landscape. This curated update examines key policy shifts, project announcements, and legal frameworks affecting stakeholders across the power, oil and gas, and infrastructure sectors.

Nigeria's development trajectory depends critically on modern legal frameworks that can attract investment, reduce risk, and create the institutional certainty necessary for economic transformation. This analysis examines how deliberate legal reform in sectors like electricity, education, healthcare, and infrastructure can serve as strategic tools for industrialization, drawing lessons from China's reform architecture and Rwanda's regulatory overhaul.

Large-scale infrastructure projects require sophisticated financing structures that allocate risk among multiple stakeholders.

Executive Order 9 of 2026 represents a fundamental restructuring of Nigeria's petroleum governance framework, extending far beyond simple revenue remittance requirements. This analysis examines the constitutional foundations, institutional implications, compliance challenges, and long-term impacts on operators, investors, regulators, and the broader energy sector in what may be one of the most consequential developments in Nigerian petroleum governance in recent years.

Festus Onyia, Mesuabari Mene-Josiah, Titilola Olatunde-Fasogbon, and Michael Ugah from Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie's Dispute Resolution team examine Nigeria's National Policy on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), 2024 in the 2026 edition of The Middle Eastern and African Arbitration Review. The publication explores how this ambitious policy aims to strengthen institutional capacity, enhance governmental participation in arbitration, and position Nigeria as Africa's leading arbitration hub.

Nigeria has enacted a new Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) in 2024. This legislation is a comprehensive framework designed to regulate the management of public funds, revenues, expenditures, assets, and liabilities at the federal level.

The Nigerian government has introduced a directive aimed at significantly reducing the time and cost involved in securing contracts within the petroleum sector.

The Local Content Compliance Requirement 2024 is a new piece of legislation aimed at increasing the participation of Nigerian businesses and individuals in the country's economy.