Nigerian research houses take the reporting role Nigeria NOW! will be measured against
Nextier and The Electricity Hub both research the Nigerian power and policy landscape and publish through their own podcasts and platforms. Their involvement around the Nigeria NOW! Global Investors Expo in November puts domestic analysis alongside the international coverage a summit of this kind usually attracts.
An international investment summit generates a predictable kind of coverage. Wire copy on the deals signed, a run of announcements, and very little that survives the week. What tends to be missing is the analysis written by people who will still be covering the market in March.
Nextier and The Electricity Hub both fall into that second category, and both are working around the Nigeria NOW! Global Investors Expo 2026 in November.
Nextier operates across energy, security, economic policy and development advisory in Nigeria, and publishes its research through the Nextier Podcast and its Development Discourse conversation series alongside written work. The Electricity Hub researches the Nigerian power sector specifically, running podcasts, convenings and analysis, and is EnergyNet’s podcast production partner.
What domestic research houses supply that visiting coverage cannot is continuity. A reform announced at a summit in November is interesting in November and consequential in eighteen months, and the organisations tracking Nigerian tariff methodology, subnational regulation or gas-to-power economics across that whole period are the ones whose judgement the market eventually uses.
That matters more in Nigeria than in most markets, because the reforms are unusually numerous. Electricity regulation has passed to sixteen subnational commissions in two years, a new mini-grid framework was issued in April, and the fiscal position has moved substantially since 2023. Following any one of those requires sustained attention rather than a visit.
The Expo itself runs on 19 and 20 November at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja, under the patronage of the Honourable Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, and covers mining, infrastructure, finance and the reforms of the past three years together. The maiden edition was launched at a press conference at the Ministry on 6 August, with the Ministries of Power, Works, and Trade and Investment represented alongside it.
Whether a first edition succeeds is not settled in November. It is settled by what is still being written about it the following year, which is why the domestic research capacity around it is worth naming now.
