A society that works for everyone
At the heart of Nextier Development Foundation is a commitment to building a society that works for everyone.
Nextier Development Foundation
A functioning society is defined by what it delivers: reliable power, secure communities, public investments that become essential infrastructure, and institutions that remain accountable to the people. When institutions deliver these things, economies grow, jobs follow, and poverty falls.
Figures from the record
In 2025, distribution companies lost an average of 37% of the value of the electricity they received to technical, commercial, and collection losses, and billing and collection gaps cost the sector ₦1.36 trillion.
What We DoBy July 2026, 36.2 million Nigerians were food insecure, with conflict in the north a leading driver.
What We DoNextier SPD built the Nextier Violent Conflict Database, whose 2025 report, “Mutations of Terror and Conflict”, recorded 5,291 violent incidents between 2020 and 2024, which killed or injured more than 20,000 people.
Our StoryIn 2025, some 139 million Nigerians lived in poverty.
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We build open data and indices that show how institutions actually perform – not what they promise.
We commission research and field experiments to find out which fixes work, and why.
We put the evidence where it can change decisions: before officials, reformers, and the public, and in partnerships that take proven models to scale.
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No economy grows in the dark, and no household thrives without light. We track how the power sector performs and put the evidence before the people who set policy.
People cannot live freely where violence goes unmeasured. We make patterns of insecurity visible and bring community evidence into national conversations about public safety.
A society is only as fair as the institutions that serve it. We track whether public institutions are becoming more capable, and strengthen the civic mechanisms that hold them to account.
Evidence changes little until people act on it. We create spaces where policymakers, researchers, and citizens test ideas in public, and we invest in the next generation of Nigerian policy leaders.
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Show, from public data, whether key institutions are becoming more capable of delivering reform
Open a public portion of the Nextier Violent Conflict Database to researchers, journalists, and communities
Published inMutations of Terror and ConflictsA regular, independent diagnostic of how the power sector serves its customers
Published inNigeria Power Sector Intelligence Report — Q1 2026Turn communities’ experience of insecurity into evidence for security planning; Benue adopted the model as state policy in 2026
Published inLeveraging Existing Community Security Structures Through A People-Centered Public Safety Lens: Lessons from Bayelsa State04
This edition introduces the Nextier Nigeria Power Sector Market Index (N-PSMI), a quarterly composite score that measures the health of NESI across four dimensions: generation, transmission, commercial viability, and…
Read our storyFor more than a decade, Nextier worked inside Nigeria’s hardest systems. What it learned there is why the Foundation exists.
