For more than six decades, Nigeria has measured its economy, its inflation, its debt, its elections, its foreign reserves and its growth. Every year, governments, investors and international organisations pore over a vast array of statistics to judge the country’s progress. Yet, according to the report, one important determinant of national performance has remained largely unmeasured: institutional capacity to execute.
That changed with the release of the inaugural Nigeria Capacity Index 2026, a new national report produced by The Capacity Institute, which assigns Nigeria an overall institutional capacity score of 54.2 out of 100 in what researchers describe as the country’s first comprehensive assessment of execution capability.
The publication introduces a new framework for evaluating national performance – not by the quality of policy intentions or the scale of political ambition, but by the ability of institutions to translate decisions into measurable outcomes. Its arrival represents a significant addition to
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