Nigeria has spent decades competing for investment through familiar levers of economic policy. Tax incentives. Market reforms. Infrastructure spending. Regulatory changes.
Those fundamentals remain important.
But in the digital economy, another source of competitive advantage is quietly emerging. It is not built with concrete, fibre-optic cables or data centres. It is built through institutions that can work together.
That is why President Bola Tinubu’s Presidential Executive Order on Virtual Assets Coordination, 2026 deserves attention beyond the headlines. Much of the public discussion has centred on cryptocurrency, Bitcoin and the creation of a Central Bank-led Virtual Asset Council. Those are important developments.
Yet they are not, in my view, the most important story.
The Executive Order is better understood as an attempt to answer a much larger question: How should governments organise themselves when technology evolves faster than the institutions responsible for governing it? Whether the initiative succeeds
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