The Course Map

Certification to your first 10 customers, in a market that added 803MW of new capacity in a single year.

How NERC-R-001-2026 raised capacity thresholds and replaced dual licensing with a single permit.

From repair bench to scalable service business.

Pricing and pipeline.

Nigerian manufacturers spend roughly ₦1 trillion a year on self-generation; sell the 20–30% solar savings case.

SOPs, delegation, and the owner-dependence trap.

Replication, hiring, and survivable expansion.

Profile, proposals, pricing.

3MTT vs. ITF-NECA's fully-sponsored 35-trade TSDP (8,000+ trained yearly, 80% success rate) vs. NDE, compared.

Licensing categories before you write code.

Practical tools for marketing, bookkeeping, customer service.

No Developer Required — No-code storefront wired to a real payment gateway.

CAC Business Name or Ltd, using the real 2025 fee gazette (₦10,000 per ₦1M share capital for private companies).

The exact 5-stage inspection and approval sequence.

A decision tree for manufacturers vs. importers, and which of SONCAP's 3 routes applies.

Trademark search to certificate, including the 2-month opposition window.

Financing, distribution, and streaming economics behind Africa's #3 film industry by revenue (₦1.76 trillion, 2023).

Streaming (42% of the ₦271.5bn 2023 music market) vs. independent-artist economics.

Audience to product line, brand deals, or membership revenue.

NEPC registration (real fee: ₦13,500 new certificate), Form NXP, Certificate of Origin.

No third-currency detour required.

HACCP, GlobalG.A.P, Halal standards.

Sourcing, sizing, and pricing for wholesale vs. retail.

From a ₦20K–₦50K kit to a registered cosmetics line, using NAFDAC's real micro-scale fee tiers.

Labelling and quality-consistency standards for repeat international orders.

Pricing, repeat clientele, and formalizing.

From raw sourcing to a signature scent line.

Build a garri, fufu, HQCF or starch processing business; cassava spoils in 3–4 days raw, so processed product is where the value locks in.

Nigeria is a top-5 global cocoa producer, yet most of its 2025 cocoa exports left the country as raw beans. Learn what it takes to process, not just grow.

Nigeria exports raw cashew nuts to Vietnam and India, who process and resell at multiples of the price. Build the missing processing step.

Up to 40% of Nigerian staple crops are lost after harvest. Build a cold-chain or mobile-processing business around that exact gap.

Corn is 40–60% of every compound-feed formula in a market growing toward 18.5 million tons by 2035.

Home production to a NAFDAC number, using the real 90-working-day registration timeline.

TEF selects roughly 1.2% of 265,000+ applicants for its $5,000 seed-capital cohort. What separates the funded 3,200 from everyone else.

Qualify for a collateral-free loan of up to ₦3 million or equity investment up to ₦2 billion, documentation checklist included.

Real check-size benchmarks (YC's $500K/7%, Antler's $100–150K/8–10%, MEST's $50–200K).

Documentation and disqualifiers most applicants miss.

Nigerian SEC crowdfunding-intermediary rules (₦100M minimum paid-up capital for the platform itself).

Dilution, valuation caps, and the clauses that cost founders their company.

Without Losing a Single Customer — Formalize while keeping your base.

Catalogues, broadcast lists, closing in DMs.

Card, transfer, and USSD in an afternoon.

Vetting suppliers and calculating true landed cost.

The GS1 tiered-pricing process (₦65,000–₦225,000) and what buyers check.

A financial-inclusion micro-business.

Hatchery management for an underserved wholesale market.

Higher-margin aquaculture beyond catfish.

Cut water use by up to 90% while doubling revenue streams.

Grow for cosmetics, food-additive and biostimulant-fertilizer markets.

A licensed, quota-compliant coastal operation with proper cold-chain handling.

Annual crop income plus a delayed timber payout.

Index-based livestock insurance is actively piloting now (a 2025–2026 NAIC-backed programme targeting 20,000 farmers across 4 states), with parametric crop insurance expanding under the 2025 insurance-industry reform. Learn to distribute these products as they scale.

AFEX alone runs 45 active warehouses, letting farmers use stored grain as loan collateral instead of distress-selling.

Package cooperatives into bankable loan applications for a brokerage fee.

A small herd plus a chilling/collection point aggregating for processors.

Langstroth hive management and export-grade quality standards.

Timed to Sallah and festive-season demand spikes.

Fast reproduction, minimal space, growing protein niche.

A subscription/call-out model filling the smallholder vet-access gap.

Certified seed multiplication through the National Agricultural Seed Council's contract out-grower pathway.

NPK formulations matched to local soil-test data, undercutting imports.

Neem-based and microbial biopesticides for the organic-input market.

International certifiers (Ecocert, Control Union) against USDA-NOP and EU-compliance standards unlock a commonly cited 15–30% price premium.

Structure tree-planting projects into verified carbon credits.

Design, install and maintain solar drip/sprinkler systems, earning per-installation plus service contracts.

Soil-moisture, weather-station and satellite-imagery tools as a subscription service.

Shade-net or polytunnel greenhouses for year-round high-value vegetables.

A mechanization-hire business — booking, routing and maintaining shared equipment.

Distribute drought-tolerant, early-maturing varieties with an agronomy advisory add-on.

Emulsion/gloss formulation and quality testing.

B2B supply contracts with hotels and hospitals.

NAFDAC GMP and the licensed-manufacturer pathway.

A lower-capital housing-deficit play.

Cold-roll forming and galvanizing for local construction demand.

Reduce reliance on imported tiles.

Sand-mould casting for manhole covers and machine parts.

Reduce costly downtime currently solved by importing spares.

Local-content supply into assemblers like Innoson (est. 2008, ~10,000 units/year) under the enacted 2013/2014 auto policy, with a more ambitious 40%-local-content NAIDP 2023–2033 successor plan still awaiting its enabling bill.

Meeting surging solar and e-mobility demand.

Nigeria banned raw lithium-ore export in July 2022 to force in-country processing — the Kaduna processing plants are still ramping up, which is exactly the capacity gap a new entrant can fill.

Sell refined bars instead of raw dore.

Ore dressing and smelting fundamentals.

Unlock B2B and export contracts that require it.

Avoid costly redesigns before you sign a lease.

MOQs, NDAs, private-label agreements.

Source recycled kraft, run the corrugator, sell into FMCG and e-commerce.

Machine selection, mould costing, landing a bulk-supply contract.

Where a small compounder profitably slots into the supply chain.

Can body-making, seaming, and cannery contracts.

Supplying sachet-water, seasoning, and snack producers.

Cut-make-trim production for the US preference programme — but AGOA lapsed for 4 months in late 2025 and is currently reauthorized only through 31 December 2026, with its longer-term future unresolved. Build for regional (ECOWAS/AfCFTA) buyers as the durable base and treat AGOA access as a bonus, not the plan.

Loom operation, dyeing/finishing for local garment makers.

Capture the value currently exported as raw wet-blue leather.

Pattern cutting, stitching-line layout, hardware sourcing.

CNC routing, finishing and packing for container export.

Gene-editing fundamentals for cassava and cowpea breeding, the same crops IITA's Ibadan genebank (16,000+ cowpea, 4,000+ cassava accessions) works on.

Bench prototype through the NAFDAC pathway.

NIPRD's own Niprisan (sickle-cell) is now purchased by 40+ countries — the pipeline this course teaches is proven, not theoretical.

Real variant-calling and population-genetics pipelines on public genomic datasets (access to H3Africa data itself is committee-gated, but the analysis skills transfer to any dataset).

Compliant sample storage and logistics that genomics research projects actually need.

Licensing, IP assignment, and spin-off structuring.

A hiring-ready portfolio for African research institutes and multinationals.

Winning your first African research or innovation grant.

Scripting, low-cost demos, monetization.

Filing at Nigeria's own IP office, and understanding that ARIPO's regional patent system does *not* cover Nigeria (observer status only) — so know exactly which African markets ARIPO does protect before relying on it.

CAD design, FDM printing, and fitting for a low-cost prosthetics service.

Automation retrofits for local manufacturers.

Turning cassava peels, rice husks, and plastic waste into sellable building materials.

For African hardware startups.

Cell chemistry, BMS design, and pack-assembly safety.

Free Sentinel/NASA imagery for crop-health alerts — no satellite ownership required.

NASRDA has committed to launching four replacement earth-observation satellites by 2027 (Nigeria currently has none active in orbit); Kenya's Taifa-1 shows what a lean, engineer-led satellite programme looks like. Position for the ground-segment and space-agency roles this buildout will create.

Licensed commercial drone operation.

Zipline now runs medical drone delivery across 5 African countries with 2M+ deliveries — study the real operating model (including the real-world lesson of Ghana's 2025 payment-dispute service pause) before designing your own route.

Packaging EO-derived risk scores.

Engineering clean water for off-grid communities.

Electrolysis technology and where the emerging projects are.

Field-measurement and verification methods for certified carbon projects.

Build-cost and payback modeling.

From chatbot to autonomous task-runner, packaged as a micro-SaaS.

Paystack, Flutterwave, Moniepoint, Interswitch style prep.

Using PCN's post-2022 renamed structure (Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, not the old "Pharmacists Council"), which now also licenses premises and technicians, not just individual pharmacists.

Formalizing an informal medicine shop under the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria's current framework.

Under MDCN practice registration.

Under ODORBN licensing.

Under VCN licensing.

Under the National Health Insurance Authority's 2022 expanded regulatory framework.

Early literacy in a child's home language remains a proven pedagogical bridge to English fluency, even after the federal government's November 2025 reversal of the mother-tongue instruction mandate — position this as a supplementary comprehension tool, not a claim about current national policy.

NABTEB is an examinations body, not an institutional accreditor — register your college so students can actually sit its NTC/NBC and Modular Trade Certificate exams.

Partner with the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, active across all 774 LGAs, rather than reinventing outreach from scratch.

Federal enforcement now requires 75% teacher TRCN-licensing compliance by end of 2026 and 100% by 2027, with non-compliant schools risking loss of WAEC/NECO/NABTEB exam-centre accreditation starting March 2027. This is no longer optional — it's the single most urgent compliance course a school owner can take.

The exam every unlicensed teacher in Nigeria now has a hard deadline to pass.

A real World Bank Group certification already used on Nigerian projects (Access Bank, 2025) and 10M+ sq m certified across Africa.

IHS Towers and ATC currently operate ~16,400 and ~10,000 Nigerian sites respectively, though IHS's pending $6.2B take-private acquisition by MTN Group is expected to close by end of 2026 — understand the ownership landscape before pitching either as your anchor client.

The Lagos–Ibadan and Abuja–Kaduna lines are operational; the connecting Kaduna–Kano segment is roughly 68% complete, with the workforce that finishes and then operates it hired well before track is laid.

Real current tiers: ₦200M (Unit), ₦1bn (State), ₦5bn (National). As of early 2026, only 30 banks nationwide had met the requirement, with license revocations for non-compliant MFBs beginning July 2026 — a live consolidation window for well-capitalized new entrants.

The Nigerian Actuarial Society doesn't run its own exams; it guides members through the internationally recognized IFoA curriculum (CS1, CM1, CB1). Know the real pathway before you register for anything.

All three CBN-licensed bureaus, not just two, and how their scores are actually built.

From Zero to First Trade — Your broker registers you with CSCS and you receive a Clearing House Number for life — understand the real account-opening chain, not the shortcut version.

FGN Bonds dual-list and trade on both venues; know how to access both.

UPDC REIT, still actively trading with 97% occupancy in its latest filing, as a worked example.

The DMO's 2025 Series VII Sukuk offered a 19.75% rental rate and was oversubscribed 735%.

Local Government Budget Tracking in 6 Weeks

One of the only regional courts in the world where an individual can sue a member state directly for human-rights violations with no requirement to exhaust domestic courts first. Know exactly how to use it.

KDP pays Nigerian authors directly by wire transfer in naira; no workaround required.

Modeled on real, active studios like Comic Republic and Vortex Comics.

Lagos's Ultimate Strikers Academy sold Victor Osimhen to VfL Wolfsburg for a reported €3.5M in 2017 — study the real direct-transfer, sell-on-clause, and FIFA solidarity-mechanism model behind deals like it.

Mobile titles (CODM, PUBG Mobile) dominate a market where Nigeria is Africa's #2 gaming country.

Current law (GIPC Act 865) requires USD 200K–1M in foreign capital depending on structure; a GIPA Bill that would remove blanket minimum-capital requirements passed Parliament in April 2026 but is still awaiting presidential assent — plan against today's law, watch for the change.

Registering through Kenya's real eCitizen/BRS portal (KSh 10,650 registration, 3–5 day turnaround).

Real, named programmes: Afreximbank's SME Export Development Programme, AfDB's African Guarantee Fund and ENABLE Youth.

CRFFN and the Nigeria Customs Service are in an active, unresolved legal dispute (a May 2025 court ruling found CRFFN's fee collection from Licensed Customs Agents illegal, and CRFFN is appealing) — understand which body actually governs your license category before you pay for one.

AGOA lapsed for four months in late 2025 and is currently reauthorized only through 31 December 2026; build a trade strategy that doesn't depend on any single preference regime surviving intact.

The AU Commission and the AfCFTA Secretariat (based in Accra) are distinct bodies with different mandates.