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Analysis connecting our research on execution capacity to current institutional challenges, policy debates, and the governance questions that matter most for Nigeria's development.

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Scenario · Governance

Nigeria 2035: A Strategic Scenario of Structural Leadership

An epilogue scenario from The Capacity State — imagining what becomes possible when Nigeria's institutional architecture compounds over a decade of disciplined reform.

Fiscal Capacity

The Treasury Single Account and What Came After

An analysis of Nigeria's TSA reform — what it achieved, what it left undone, and what it reveals about the limits of administrative reform without broader fiscal architecture change.

Coordination

Why Nigeria's Interministerial Committees Don't Work

A diagnostic look at coordination failure in federal governance — examining the structural reasons why committees and task forces consistently fail to produce cross-agency alignment.

Human Capital

The Talent Diaspora and Nigeria's Institutional Memory Problem

How the departure of skilled professionals from Nigerian public institutions erodes the institutional memory required to sustain reform across political cycles.

Reform Design

Absorption Capacity: Why Big Reforms Often Weaken the Systems They Target

Drawing on the book's framework — examining how reform without sufficient institutional absorption capacity produces fragmentation rather than improvement.

NCIx Findings

What the NCIx 2026 Tells Us About Nigeria's Delivery Systems

A deeper read of the Nigeria Capacity Index findings — translating the index scores into diagnostic insight about where Nigeria's execution architecture is weakest and where momentum exists.