The Nigeria Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act

              PARLIAMENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
                  Tenth National Assembly / 2026 Session

                  DRAFT BILL

INTRODUCED BY ________ (Member of the National Assembly)

CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NIGERIA PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY AND THE PROVISION OF ENERGY SECURITY

                  A BILL FOR AN ACT

LONG TITLE

AN ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA concerning the establishment of the Nigeria Productive Capacity Authority ("NPCA" or "the Authority") as a Federal Government- owned company incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020, on the operational chassis pattern of NNPC Limited (incorporated September 2021 in furtherance of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021) and the chartering precedent of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (Establishment, Etc.) Act, 2011; the establishment of the Civic Robot Corps of Nigeria ("CRCN") as a public-good labour body; the conferral of a Personal Productive Asset entitlement on every citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ordinarily resident in the Federation, identified by the 11-digit National Identification Number (NIN) issued by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), distributed through the National Cash Transfer Office (NCTO) under the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) and any Central Bank of Nigeria- licensed Nigerian bank elected by the shareholder using the BVN-NIN linkage; thirty-seven State Delivery Units (one in each of the 36 states and one in the Federal Capital Territory); ENERGY SECURITY elevated as a co-equal Title coordinating with the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), the six Generation Companies (GenCos), the eleven Distribution Companies (DisCos), the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the Nigerian Independent System Operator (ISO), the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET), the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) Solar Power Naija Programme and Nigeria Electrification Project, the Electricity Act 2023 + the Constitutional Amendment Act 2023 (giving state governments concurrent legislative authority over electricity), and the Niger Delta Just Transition workforce coordination context following the 29 May 2023 petroleum subsidy removal declaration; coordination with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the Bank of Industry (BOI), the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), and the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) for capital investment, credit guarantees, and equity co-investment; explicit declination to establish any new Nigerian personal income tax, companies income tax, value-added tax, petroleum profits tax, fuel levy, excise duty, customs duty, or other Nigerian tax of any kind for the funding of the Authority; explicit preservation of the Central Bank of Nigeria's monetary policy independence under the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, No. 7 of 2007; explicit preservation of NNPC Limited, the NUPRC, the NMDPRA, the NSIA, the BOI, the DBN, the BOA, the TCN, the GenCos, the DisCos, the NERC, the NBET, the ISO, the REA, the NSIPA, the NCTO, the NIMC, the FIRS, the NBS, the Nigerian Armed Forces, and every Federal Government institution established by the Constitution; consistency with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), particularly Section 14(2)(b) (the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government), Section 16 (economic objectives), Section 17 (social objectives), and Chapter VI (Executive); consistency with the philosophical heritage of the 1 October 1960 Independence Declaration, the 1 October 1963 Republic declaration, the 12 June 1993 MKO Abiola annulled victory and the 12 June 2018 statutory recognition of June 12 as Democracy Day, the 1914 Amalgamation, the 1999 return to civilian rule, and the tri-cultural Omoluabi (Yoruba) + Imeobi (Igbo) + Mutunci (Hausa) human-dignity tradition; and provision for connected purposes.

LEGISLATIVE ROUTING NOTE

This Draft Bill is for introduction in the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria during the Tenth National Assembly, 2026 Session, under Section 58 of the Constitution.

The Bill is processed through both the House of Representatives and the Senate per the bicameral requirement.

Suggested committee referrals following First Reading:

- Senate Committee on Finance + House Committee on Finance: lead for fiscal provisions, NSIA + BOI + DBN + BOA coordination, and CBN preservation - Senate Committee on Industry + House Committee on Industry: for productive-capacity provisions and BOI coordination - Senate Committee on Power + House Committee on Power: for the Energy Security Title (TCN + GenCos + DisCos + NERC + ISO + NBET + REA + the Electricity Act 2023 coordination) - Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream and Upstream) + House Committee on Petroleum Resources: for the NNPC Limited coordination and Niger Delta Just Transition - Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions + House Committee on Banking and Currency: for the CBN, BVN-NIN, and distribution provisions - Senate Committee on Special Duties + House Committee on Special Duties: for the NSIPA + NCTO + Renewed Hope CCT coordination - Senate Committee on FCT + House Committee on FCT: for the FCT Delivery Unit provisions - Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa + House Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa: for the ECOWAS coordination provisions - Joint National Assembly Committee on Defence: for the Nigerian Armed Forces strategic-reserve coordination

Funding Architecture: Four load-bearing channels: (a) Federation Account annual appropriation through the Annual

    Appropriation Act, starting with N300 billion for FY2027;

(b) NSIA + BOI + DBN + BOA coordinated infrastructure,

    industrial, MSME, and agricultural finance up to N1.15
    trillion cumulative outstanding (Article 12);

(c) JETP-equivalent partner-instrument coordination (such as

    NSIA-coordinated multilateral co-investment and the World
    Bank Group + African Development Bank + KfW + Agence
    Française de Développement existing DBN-financing
    relationships) where consistent with Federal Government
    coordination, Article 13;

(d) Operating revenue from at-cost sales of goods produced by

    the Authority and the Civic Robot Corps of Nigeria.

No new Nigerian taxation is established by this Act.

TITLE I - SHORT TITLE, FINDINGS, DECLARATIONS

ARTICLE 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the "Nigeria Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act 2026."

ARTICLE 2. FINDINGS.

The Parliament finds:

FINDING 1 - SECTION 14(2)(B) PRIMARY-PURPOSE-OF-GOVERNMENT ANCHOR. Section 14(2)(b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, declares that "the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government." This Act, together with the sibling Nigeria Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act, is a legislative measure adopted to give operational form to that primary-purpose declaration through the productive-capacity infrastructure that the Authority will charter and operate.

FINDING 2 - SECTION 16 ECONOMIC-OBJECTIVES DIRECTIVE. Section 16 of the Constitution directs the State to "harness the resources of the nation and promote national prosperity and an efficient, dynamic, and self-reliant economy" and to "control the national economy in such manner as to secure the maximum welfare, freedom, and happiness of every citizen on the basis of social justice and equality of status and opportunity." The Authority is the institutional instrument through which this directive is operationalised at the productive-capacity layer.

FINDING 3 - NIGERIA SOVEREIGN INVESTMENT AUTHORITY 2011 ACT AS THE NATURAL CHARTERING PRECEDENT. The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (Establishment, Etc.) Act, 2011, established the NSIA as a Federal Government corporation managing federation- pooled capital across three funds (Stabilisation, Future Generations, Infrastructure). The 2024 Federation contribution of N247 billion (up from N21 billion in 2023, an over 1,000 percent year-on-year increase) demonstrates that the Federal Government can scale capital deployment through this chartering model. The Authority adopts the same chartering model for the productive-capacity layer.

FINDING 4 - NNPC LIMITED CAMA-COMPANY OPERATIONAL CHASSIS. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited was incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act in September 2021 in furtherance of the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021, and unveiled by President Buhari on 19 July 2022 as the post-PIA commercially- focused entity replacing the erstwhile Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The NNPC Limited CAMA-company chassis provides the operational template for a Federal Government- owned commercial entity governed by standard companies-law incorporation. The Authority adopts the same CAMA-company chassis.

FINDING 5 - BANK OF INDUSTRY 65-YEAR INDUSTRIAL-FINANCE LINEAGE. The Bank of Industry Limited, "Nigeria's oldest, largest, and most successful Development Finance Institution" per the BOI website, is the successor (consolidated in 2001) to the Nigerian Industrial Development Bank (founded 1964), the Nigerian Bank for Commerce and Industry (founded 1973), and the National Economic Reconstruction Fund (founded 1989). The BOI lineage provides Nigeria with over 60 years of industrial- finance institutional experience. The Authority's Industrial Capacity Coordination Agreement with the BOI under Article 12 inherits that lineage.

FINDING 6 - 2023 ELECTRICITY REFORM. The Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005 unbundled the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (formerly NEPA) into six Generation Companies (GenCos), the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and eleven Distribution Companies (DisCos). The Electricity Act 2023 (replacing EPSRA) and the Constitutional Amendment Act 2023 give state governments concurrent legislative authority over electricity within their territories, fundamentally restructuring the Nigerian power- sector federalism. The Authority is coordinated with the post- 2023 architecture and respects the new state-level concurrent authority.

FINDING 7 - 29 MAY 2023 PETROLEUM SUBSIDY REMOVAL AND NIGER DELTA JUST TRANSITION. President Tinubu's 29 May 2023 inaugural- address declaration "Fuel subsidy is gone" ended a four-decade practice of federal control over petrol pump price (bbc.com/ news/world-africa-65737846; premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/ 601239; energyinafrica.com/insights/petrol-price-nigerias- tinubus-subsidy March 2026). The fiscal-reform pivot creates both the room and the obligation for productive-capacity reinvestment. The Niger Delta workforce reskilling context that flows from the subsidy removal is addressed by the Civic Robot Corps of Nigeria's Niger Delta Just Transition Service line under Article 19(b), with priority recruitment in the eight Niger Delta states (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, Rivers).

FINDING 8 - HIERARCHY ITSELF KILLS (MARMOT QUARTET) AT NIGERIAN GRADIENT SCALE. Universal Foundational Citation C identifies the stress-physiology pathway by which basic-needs stratification produces population health damage. Nigerian regional, ethnic, and rural-urban stratification gradients (particularly the documented disparity between the Lagos and Abuja metropolitan complexes on one hand and the North-East / North-West rural areas affected by the post-2009 insurgency context on the other) translate directly into the Marmot pathway at population scale. The Authority's universal Personal Productive Asset entitlement removes the basic-needs stratification at the layer at which the Marmot quartet finds most aggressive health-pathway damage.

FINDING 9 - REPLICATION THRESHOLD AND NIGERIAN ENGINEERING CAPACITY. Self-replicating humanoid robotic manufacturing technology arrived at sub-USD-30,000 unit cost during the Q4 2025 through Q2 2026 inflection window per Universal Foundational Citation A. Nigeria hosts engineering capacity at the University of Ibadan (founded 1948, the oldest university in Nigeria), the University of Lagos, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Obafemi Awolowo University, the University of Port Harcourt, the African University of Science and Technology Abuja, the National Mathematical Centre, and the Nigeria Defence Academy Kaduna. Nigeria is positioned to deploy replication-threshold technology under Nigerian productive-capacity infrastructure.

FINDING 10 - FREEDOM CHARTER-EQUIVALENT ANCHOR. Section 14(2)(a) of the Constitution declares "sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority." Read together with Section 14(2)(b)'s primary-purpose-of-government declaration and Section 16's economic-objectives directive that the State shall control the national economy "on the basis of social justice and equality of status and opportunity," the Constitution provides the indigenous Nigerian foundational anchor for the citizen-shareholder Personal Productive Asset entitlement under this Act. The Authority gives that constitutional anchor its operational form on the chartering chassis Nigeria has built since 1999.

FINDING 11 - NIGER DELTA POST-EXTRACTIVE TRANSITION. The Niger Delta states (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, Rivers) host the workforce most directly affected by the post-petroleum-subsidy-removal trajectory and by the longer post-extractive transition that the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 and the December 2022 transformation of NNPC into a CAMA company contemplate. The Civic Robot Corps of Nigeria includes a Niger Delta Just Transition Service line (Article 19(b)) providing priority recruitment, wage-floor maintenance, training pipeline, and geographic reskilling for affected workers, in coordination with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the eight Niger Delta state governments, and the affected local government areas.

FINDING 12 - INDEPENDENCE DAY, DEMOCRACY DAY, AND THE FORMATIVE MOMENTS OF NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY. The 1 October 1960 Independence Declaration, the 1 October 1963 Republic declaration, the 12 June 1993 MKO Abiola annulled victory and the 12 June 2018 statutory recognition of June 12 as Democracy Day, the 1914 Amalgamation, the 29 May 1999 return to civilian rule, and the tri-cultural Omoluabi (Yoruba) + Imeobi (Igbo) + Mutunci (Hausa) human-dignity tradition anchor the Authority's Personal Productive Asset entitlement as the modern operational expression of the principle that the Federation is the common endeavour of its citizens across all six geopolitical zones and all 374 recognised ethno-linguistic groupings.

ARTICLE 3. DECLARATIONS.

DECLARATION 1 - PERSONAL PRODUCTIVE ASSET ENTITLEMENT. The Parliament declares that every citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ordinarily resident in the Federation, identified by the 11-digit National Identification Number (NIN) issued by the National Identity Management Commission, shall enjoy as a matter of statutory right under this Act a Personal Productive Asset entitlement consisting of one non-transferable Productive Capacity Share, the annual distribution of dividends from inter- state pooled productive-capacity revenue, and access to at-cost basic-needs goods produced by the Civic Robot Corps of Nigeria.

DECLARATION 2 - EXISTING NIGERIAN INSTITUTIONS UNAFFECTED. Nothing in this Act affects the establishment, functions, governance, or operation of:

(a) The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the monetary policy

    independence guaranteed under the Central Bank of Nigeria
    Act, No. 7 of 2007;

(b) The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the

    Bank of Industry (BOI), the Development Bank of Nigeria
    (DBN), and the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), beyond the
    coordination expressly authorised by Article 12;

(c) NNPC Limited, the NUPRC, the NMDPRA, and other petroleum-

    sector state-owned or state-controlled enterprises;

(d) The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), the Generation

    Companies (GenCos), the Distribution Companies (DisCos),
    the NBET, the ISO, the NERC, the REA, and other power-
    sector state-owned or state-controlled enterprises, beyond
    the coordination expressly authorised by Title VI;

(e) The NSIPA, the NCTO, the NIMC, the FIRS, the National

    Bureau of Statistics, the National Population Commission,
    the NIDB, and other state agencies, beyond the coordination
    expressly authorised by this Act;

(f) The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), beyond the co-

    delivery coordination authorised by the sibling Nigeria
    Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act;

(g) The Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer (RH-CCT), the

    National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), the
    Anchor Borrowers Programme, the Green Imperative Programme,
    and other federal social-protection or agricultural-
    development programmes, beyond the coordination expressly
    authorised by this Act;

(h) Nigerian agricultural cooperatives, consumer cooperatives,

    Cooperative Thrift Societies, esusu / ajo / adashe rotating
    savings and credit associations, and the indigenous
    Nigerian cooperative tradition generally;

(i) Food Bank Nigeria, the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS),

    the Christian Association of Nigeria social-services arms,
    the Jamatu Nasril Islam (JNI) social-services arms, and
    other accredited humanitarian organisations;

(j) The National Assembly (Senate and House of

    Representatives), the President of the Federal Republic,
    the Federal Executive Council, the Supreme Court, the
    Court of Appeal, the Federal Judicial Service Commission,
    the National Human Rights Commission, the Independent
    National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Code of Conduct
    Bureau, the Public Complaints Commission, the Niger Delta
    Development Commission (NDDC), and every other Federal
    Government institution established by the Constitution.

DECLARATION 3 - NO NEW NIGERIAN TAXATION. No new Nigerian personal income tax, companies income tax, value-added tax, petroleum profits tax, fuel levy, excise duty, customs duty, or other Nigerian tax of any kind is established, extended, or increased by this Act for the funding of the Authority.

DECLARATION 4 - STATE AND LGA AUTONOMY RESPECTED. Nothing in this Act diminishes the constitutional and statutory autonomy of the 36 states or the 774 Local Government Areas. The State Delivery Units under Title IV operate in coordination with, not in displacement of, state and LGA structures and the intergovernmental fiscal framework administered through the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) and the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). The Electricity Act 2023 + Constitutional Amendment Act 2023 concurrent state authority over electricity is fully respected.

DECLARATION 5 - ENTREPRENEURIAL FREEDOM AND PROPERTY RIGHTS PRESERVED. Consistent with Section 17 of the Constitution (equality of rights and opportunities and dignity of the human person) and Section 43 (right to acquire and own immovable property anywhere in Nigeria), this Act preserves the Nigerian commercial market in full. The Authority operates as a Federal Government-owned company under CAMA that contracts with private producers and distributors; it does not establish state ownership of the means of production. The Personal Productive Asset entitlement is a non-transferable property right enrolled at the 11-digit NIN. The Nigerian private market for premium, luxury, custom, and specialty goods continues without restriction.

TITLE II - ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AUTHORITY

ARTICLE 4. ESTABLISHMENT.

(1) There is hereby established the Nigeria Productive Capacity

    Authority ("NPCA" or "the Authority") as a Federal
    Government-owned company incorporated under the Companies
    and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020, on the operational
    chassis pattern of NNPC Limited (incorporated September
    2021 in furtherance of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021)
    and the chartering precedent of the Nigeria Sovereign
    Investment Authority (Establishment, Etc.) Act, 2011.

(2) The Federal Government of Nigeria, represented by the

    Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, is the
    sole shareholder of the Authority. The Minister of Finance
    exercises the Federal Government's shareholder rights in
    concurrence with the Minister of Industry, Trade and
    Investment and the Federal Executive Council.

(3) The Authority's registered office shall be in Abuja, the

    Federal Capital Territory, with operational offices in
    all 36 states + FCT under Title IV.

ARTICLE 5. BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

(1) The Authority is governed by a Board of Directors of

    fifteen members, appointed in accordance with CAMA, the
    Public Procurement Act, 2007, the Fiscal Responsibility
    Act, 2007, and the corporate-governance framework of the
    Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria.

(2) Members include:

    (a) The Chairperson, appointed by the President of the
        Federal Republic on the recommendation of the Federal
        Executive Council, with confirmation by the Senate;
    (b) The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of
        Finance, Budget and National Planning, ex officio;
    (c) The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of
        Industry, Trade and Investment, ex officio;
    (d) The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of
        Power, ex officio;
    (e) The Chief Executive Officer of the Authority, ex
        officio;
    (f) Two members designated by the NSIA Board as the
        standing interface between the Authority and the NSIA;
    (g) One member designated by the BOI Board as the standing
        BOI interface;
    (h) One member designated by the DBN Board as the standing
        DBN interface;
    (i) One member designated by the BOA Board as the standing
        BOA interface;
    (j) Two members representing organised labour (the
        Nigeria Labour Congress / NLC, the Trade Union
        Congress / TUC, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior
        Staff Association of Nigeria / PENGASSAN, the
        National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers /
        NUPENG acting collectively through their federation
        leadership);
    (k) Two members representing the Nigerian cooperative and
        Cooperative Thrift Society sector under the Co-
        operative Societies Act, including one member with
        explicit esusu / ajo / adashe / asusu federation
        background.

(3) Geopolitical-zone balance shall be observed in Board

    appointments per the Federal Character principle in
    Section 14(3) of the Constitution.

ARTICLE 6. MANAGEMENT.

(1) The Authority is managed by an Executive Committee of

    nine members, appointed by the Board in accordance with
    CAMA and the PFMA-equivalent fiscal-responsibility
    framework.

(2) The Executive Committee includes a Group Chief Executive

    Officer (GCEO), a Group Chief Financial Officer (GCFO), a
    Group Chief Operations Officer (GCOO), and six Executive
    Directors for: (i) Productive Capacity; (ii) Energy
    Security and TCN + GenCos + DisCos Coordination; (iii)
    State Delivery and Civic Robot Corps Operations; (iv)
    Finance, NSIA + BOI + DBN + BOA Coordination, and Multi-
    lateral Partner Coordination; (v) Niger Delta Just
    Transition Coordination; (vi) Stakeholder Relations
    (including organised labour, cooperatives, civil
    society).

ARTICLE 7. POWERS OF THE AUTHORITY.

The Authority has the power to:

(a) Establish, capitalise, and govern thirty-seven State

    Delivery Units (one in each of the 36 states and one in
    the FCT) under Article 16;

(b) Issue Productive Capacity Shares under Article 14; (c) Acquire, hold, manage, lease, sell, and dispose of

    property including replication-threshold robotic
    manufacturing equipment;

(d) Enter contracts with the Federal Government, ministries,

    NSIA, BOI, DBN, BOA, NNPC Limited, TCN, GenCos, DisCos,
    NERC, NBET, ISO, REA, NSIPA, NCTO, NIPOST, state
    governments, LGAs, Nigerian cooperatives, multilateral
    partners (the World Bank Group, the African Development
    Bank, KfW, Agence Française de Développement, the
    International Monetary Fund where appropriate), and
    private vendors;

(e) Coordinate with NSIA + BOI + DBN + BOA under Article 12

    for capital, infrastructure, industrial, MSME-wholesale,
    and agricultural finance up to N1.15 trillion cumulative
    outstanding;

(f) Coordinate with multilateral partners under Article 13; (g) Distribute Productive Capacity Dividends under Article 15

    through the existing NSIPA + NCTO + NIN + BVN +
    Nigerian-bank network;

(h) Charter the Civic Robot Corps of Nigeria under Title V; (i) Coordinate with TCN, GenCos, DisCos, NERC, ISO, NBET,

    REA, and the Niger Delta Just Transition framework under
    Title VI;

(j) Issue regulations and rules within the scope of its

    mandate consistent with CAMA, the Public Procurement Act,
    the Fiscal Responsibility Act, and the Financial
    Reporting Council of Nigeria framework.

TITLE III - FUNDING ARCHITECTURE

ARTICLE 8. PRINCIPLES OF FUNDING.

Four load-bearing channels per the Legislative Routing Note; no new Nigerian taxation. The Authority's funding architecture resolves the gradient-related health pathway documented in Universal Foundational Citation C (Marmot quartet) at Nigerian population scale through universal at-cost commodity assurance under the sibling Nigeria Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act and through the Personal Productive Asset entitlement under this Act.

ARTICLE 9. NO NEW TAXATION.

No new Nigerian personal income tax, companies income tax, value-added tax, petroleum profits tax, fuel levy, excise duty, customs duty, or other Nigerian tax of any kind is established by this Act.

ARTICLE 10. INITIAL APPROPRIATION.

(1) For the financial year 2027 there is appropriated from the

    Federation Account through the Annual Appropriation Act
    the sum of N300 billion for the establishment of the
    Authority, scaled to the Nigerian population of
    approximately 232 million.

(2) Subsequent annual appropriations shall be made in the

    ordinary annual Appropriation Act.

ARTICLE 11. SHAREHOLDER CONTRIBUTION.

The Federal Government of Nigeria, represented by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, holds 100 percent of the issued share capital of the Authority on behalf of the Nigerian public. State capital contributions and operational surpluses are retained for the statutory mandate per CAMA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007, and the PFMA-equivalent federal financial-management framework.

ARTICLE 12. NSIA + BOI + DBN + BOA COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment

    Authority (NSIA), the Bank of Industry (BOI), the
    Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), and the Bank of
    Agriculture (BOA) shall enter Coordination Agreements
    within twelve months of the establishment of the
    Authority, providing for:

    (a) NSIA Nigeria Infrastructure Fund co-investment up to
        N500 billion cumulative outstanding;
    (b) BOI industrial-finance instruments up to N300 billion
        cumulative outstanding;
    (c) DBN wholesale facilities to Participating Financial
        Institutions up to N200 billion cumulative outstanding;
    (d) BOA agricultural-supply-chain finance up to N150
        billion cumulative outstanding.

(2) Coordination shall be consistent with the existing NSIA,

    BOI, DBN, and BOA mandates and operational strategies.

(3) The Authority does not direct, control, or modify any

    NSIA, BOI, DBN, or BOA financing decision. Coordination
    under this Article is by agreement only.

ARTICLE 13. MULTILATERAL PARTNER COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority may receive co-financing from multilateral

    partners with which the Federal Government of Nigeria has
    existing relationships, including the World Bank Group,
    the African Development Bank, KfW, the Agence Française de
    Développement, the International Monetary Fund (where
    appropriate), and the Islamic Development Bank, where
    consistent with the Federal Government's existing
    coordination frameworks (the DBN's wholesale-PFI funding
    relationships with these partners provide one operational
    template).

(2) Multilateral partner coordination is by accepted-partner

    instrument; it is not an external imposition of policy
    framework. The Federal Government's existing partnership
    treaties and agreements are the operative legal basis.

(3) The Authority does not displace any existing multilateral-

    partner-coordinated programme.

ARTICLE 14. PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY SHARES.

(1) The Authority shall issue Productive Capacity Shares as

    follows:

    (a) ONE Productive Capacity Share to every citizen of the
        Federal Republic of Nigeria ordinarily resident in the
        Federation on the effective date of this Act,
        identified by 11-digit NIN;

    (b) ONE Productive Capacity Share to every person
        registered as a Nigerian citizen by the National
        Population Commission and NIMC thereafter (birth
        registration, naturalisation, or other lawful
        acquisition of citizenship);

    (c) Foreign nationals lawfully resident in Nigeria under
        the Immigration Act, 2015, or under ECOWAS Protocol
        residence rights, or as documented refugees, who hold
        an identifier issued by the Nigeria Immigration
        Service, may, by regulation, be enrolled at the at-
        cost commodity tier without a Productive Capacity
        Share.

(2) Productive Capacity Shares are non-transferable.

(3) ONE PERSON, ONE SHARE.

ARTICLE 15. ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION.

(1) Seventy per cent (70 percent) of all productive-capacity

    revenue received by each State Delivery Unit shall be
    remitted to the Authority for inter-state pooling. Each
    Delivery Unit retains the remaining thirty per cent (30
    percent) for state-level operations.

(2) Seventy-five per cent (75 percent) of the inter-state pool

    shall be distributed annually to Productive Capacity
    Shareholders, equally per share, through the NSIPA + NCTO
    distribution infrastructure with payment through any CBN-
    licensed Nigerian bank elected by the shareholder using
    the BVN-NIN linkage, or through the Renewed Hope CCT
    payment channels where the shareholder is already
    enrolled.

(3) The remaining twenty-five per cent (25 percent) is

    retained by the Authority for operating reserves, NSIA +
    BOI + DBN + BOA repayment, and expansion capital.

(4) The annual distribution shall be made on a date determined

    by the Authority with a target date of 1 October
    (Independence Day) in each year, symbolically connecting
    the Personal Productive Asset entitlement to the founding
    of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 1 October 1960.

TITLE IV - STATE DELIVERY UNITS

ARTICLE 16. STATE DELIVERY UNITS.

(1) The Authority establishes State Delivery Units in each of

    the 36 states (Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi,
    Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo,
    Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina,
    Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo,
    Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe,
    Zamfara) and one Delivery Unit in the Federal Capital
    Territory, for a total of 37 State Delivery Units.

(2) Each State Delivery Unit is administered by a State

    Director appointed by the Authority Board in concurrence
    with the Governor of the state (or the Minister of FCT in
    the case of the FCT Delivery Unit).

(3) Priority deployment of Civic Robot Corps facilities is

    targeted to:

    (a) the Niger Delta states (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross
        River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, Rivers) under the Niger
        Delta Just Transition workforce-reskilling priority
        per Article 19(b);

    (b) the North-East and North-West states most affected by
        the post-2009 insurgency context (Borno, Yobe,
        Adamawa, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi, Katsina);

    (c) the major metropolitan agglomerations (Lagos State,
        Kano State, Federal Capital Territory, Rivers State,
        Oyo State, Kaduna State).

(4) Sub-state operational presence at the LGA level shall be

    rolled out in phased deployment under Title VII below.

TITLE V - CIVIC ROBOT CORPS OF NIGERIA

ARTICLE 17. ESTABLISHMENT.

(1) There is hereby established within the Authority a public-

    good labour body to be known as the "Civic Robot Corps of
    Nigeria" ("CRCN" or "the Corps").

(2) The Corps operates replication-threshold robotic

    manufacturing equipment for at-cost basic-needs goods
    production and other service lines.

ARTICLE 18. SERVICE LINES.

The Corps shall operate:

(a) At-cost goods production and distribution (coordinating

    with the Nigeria Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance
    Programme under the sibling Nigeria Food, Resource, and
    Commodity Assurance Act, and with Food Bank Nigeria + the
    Nigerian Red Cross Society + the Christian Association of
    Nigeria and Jamatu Nasril Islam social-services arms +
    NIPOST + esusu / ajo / adashe networks for delivery
    partnership);

(b) Niger Delta Just Transition coal-and-petroleum-region

    workforce absorption (Article 19(b) priority recruitment
    for affected Niger Delta states workers, with parallel
    coordination for the gas-flaring-affected and oil-spill-
    affected coastal communities of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross
    River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers);

(c) Rural and remote-area distribution (coordinating with

    NIPOST where it retains branch presence, with the
    Nigerian Armed Forces strategic-reserve logistics network,
    and with the state Ministries of Works);

(d) Coordination with the BOI + dtic-equivalent Federal

    Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment on Nigerian-
    built humanoid-robotic-platform manufacturing capability
    development and downstream deployment, including the
    automotive-industry ecosystem (Lagos, Kaduna, Anambra,
    Plateau), the Special Economic Zones, and the Free Trade
    Zones across the federation;

(e) Healthcare-supply-chain logistics coordination with the

    Federal Ministry of Health, the state Ministries of
    Health, the National Primary Health Care Development
    Agency (NPHCDA), the National Health Insurance Authority
    (NHIA), the National Blood Service Commission (NBSC),
    and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration
    and Control (NAFDAC);

(f) Energy-sector deployment coordination with Eskom-

    equivalent TCN, GenCos, DisCos, NBET, NERC, ISO, REA,
    and the Niger Delta gas-and-pipeline workforce programmes
    (see Title VI);

(g) Civil-defence and disaster-response logistics coordination

    with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and
    the Nigerian Armed Forces given Nigerian exposure to
    seasonal flooding (the Niger and Benue River basins; the
    Lagos coastal area; the 2022 Bayelsa flood event), to the
    Sahel-region drought patterns, and to the post-2009
    insurgency security context in the North-East and North-
    West;

(h) Strategic reserve management coordination with the

    Nigerian Armed Forces for national strategic reserves of
    basic-needs goods distributed across the six geopolitical
    zones;

(i) Cooperative coordination with Nigerian agricultural

    cooperatives, consumer cooperatives, Cooperative Thrift
    Societies, and esusu / ajo / adashe rotating savings and
    credit associations under the Co-operative Societies Act,
    for community-scale at-cost distribution in communities
    where other distribution channels are uneven.

ARTICLE 19. HUMAN WORKFORCE.

(1) The Corps employs a human workforce of Nigerian

    ordinarily-resident persons, with jurisdictional
    preference and explicit Niger Delta state and other
    affected-workforce recruitment priority under Finding 11.

(2) The Corps shall:

    (a) Maintain a wage floor of 120 percent of the Nigerian
        national minimum wage (as adjusted annually by the
        National Minimum Wage Act review and ministerial
        determination; the current statutory minimum wage is
        N70,000 per month under the National Minimum Wage
        (Amendment) Act, 2024);

    (b) Provide statutory employee contributions under the
        Pension Reform Act, No. 4 of 2014 (Contributory
        Pension Scheme administered by Pension Fund
        Administrators / PFAs licensed by PenCom), the
        Employee Compensation Act, No. 13 of 2010, the
        Industrial Training Fund Act, and the National
        Health Insurance Authority Act, 2022;

    (c) Coordinate with the National Board for Technical
        Education (NBTE), the Industrial Training Fund (ITF),
        and the National Open Apprenticeship Scheme for
        apprenticeship pipelines;

    (d) Provide explicit pathways from Corps employment to
        the Federal Civil Service, the Nigerian Armed Forces,
        and state public-sector employment;

    (e) Honour the existing trade-union framework under the
        Trade Unions Act, the Trade Disputes Act, and the
        Labour Act, and recognise Corps-organising trade
        unions (likely affiliates of NLC, TUC, PENGASSAN,
        NUPENG, NUEE, and other federation members).

TITLE VI - ENERGY SECURITY AND NIGER DELTA JUST, TRANSITION COORDINATION

ARTICLE 20. ENERGY SECURITY AS A CO-EQUAL MANDATE.

The Parliament declares that ENERGY SECURITY of Nigeria is a co-equal Title of the Authority's mandate alongside productive capacity and the Civic Robot Corps. The structural reasons are:

(a) The Nigerian electricity-sector reform from the EPSRA 2005

    unbundling through the Electricity Act 2023 and the
    Constitutional Amendment Act 2023 (concurrent state
    authority over electricity) represents the most
    significant restructuring of Nigerian power-sector
    federalism in two decades, and the Authority is
    coordinated with the post-2023 architecture from
    inception.

(b) The Niger Delta workforce transition under the post-29-

    May-2023 petroleum-subsidy-removal trajectory requires
    structured absorption instruments at the scale of the
    workforce involved across the eight Niger Delta states
    (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo,
    Rivers).

(c) The REA Solar Power Naija Programme and Nigeria

    Electrification Project (World Bank-supported) require
    coordination with Corps-deployed rural off-grid solar
    installation and maintenance at the LGA level across
    the 774 LGAs.

(d) The TCN national grid + GenCos generation portfolio +

    DisCos last-mile distribution require sustained
    coordination with Corps-deployed workforce in
    maintenance, grid-modernisation, and metering rollout.

ARTICLE 21. TCN, GENCOS, AND DISCOS COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN),

    the six Generation Companies (GenCos), and the eleven
    Distribution Companies (DisCos) shall enter Coordination
    Agreements within twelve months of the establishment of
    the Authority, providing for:

    (a) Corps-operated deployment and maintenance services
        for the national grid and the distribution networks;

    (b) Authority preference for procurement of long-term
        electricity from GenCos for Authority-operated
        productive-capacity facilities, providing GenCos
        with anchor-offtake commitment supporting capacity-
        expansion planning;

    (c) Coordination on the REIPPPP-equivalent renewable-
        energy build-out under the REA Solar Power Naija
        Programme and the Nigeria Electrification Project;

    (d) Coordination on the metering rollout under the Mass
        Metering Programme and the Distribution Sector
        Recovery Programme.

(2) The Authority does not direct, control, or modify TCN,

    GenCo, DisCo, NBET, NERC, ISO, or REA operations.

ARTICLE 22. NERC, ISO, AND THE ELECTRICITY ACT 2023 STATE-LEVEL

            CONCURRENT AUTHORITY.

(1) The Authority recognises and respects the Electricity Act

    2023 and the Constitutional Amendment Act 2023 grant of
    concurrent legislative authority over electricity to the
    36 state governments and the FCT.

(2) The Authority enters Coordination Agreements with state

    governments that have established state-level Electricity
    Regulatory Commissions and state-level grid-and-
    distribution frameworks, including the existing or
    forthcoming state regulators in Lagos, Edo, Ondo, Enugu,
    Imo, Plateau, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom, and other states moving
    forward under the Electricity Act 2023 framework.

(3) The Authority coordinates with the Nigerian Independent

    System Operator (ISO) for transparent Authority access to
    the transmission network and for Authority participation
    in NBET-coordinated electricity trading consistent with
    the Electricity Act 2023.

ARTICLE 23. RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AGENCY (REA) COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority and the Rural Electrification Agency (REA)

    shall coordinate on Civic Robot Corps deployment-support
    services for the Solar Power Naija Programme and the
    Nigeria Electrification Project, including off-grid solar
    installation, mini-grid deployment, productive-use-of-
    electricity (PUE) coordination, and rural-distribution
    facility rollout, across the 774 LGAs.

(2) Coordination shall preserve the existing REA partnership

    relationships with the World Bank Group, the African
    Development Bank, and bilateral development partners.

ARTICLE 24. NIGER DELTA JUST TRANSITION COORDINATION.

(1) The Authority shall coordinate with the Niger Delta

    Development Commission (NDDC), the Federal Ministry of
    Niger Delta Affairs (where retained in the current
    Federal Executive Council architecture), the Hydrocarbon
    Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), the Petroleum
    and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria
    (PENGASSAN), the National Union of Petroleum and Natural
    Gas Workers (NUPENG), the eight Niger Delta state
    governments, and the affected local government areas on:

    (a) Priority absorption of post-petroleum-subsidy-removal
        and longer post-extractive workforce-transition
        workers into Corps service per Article 19(b);

    (b) Geographic retention of skilled workforce in the
        affected Niger Delta communities through Corps
        deployment within Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River,
        Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers states;

    (c) Coordination with the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas
        (NLNG) Train 7 expansion (operating under Bonny LNG
        Free Trade Zone) and with the Decade of Gas Initiative
        for skilled-workforce alignment;

    (d) Continuation of wage-floor maintenance at 120 percent
        of the national minimum wage per Article 19(2)(a)
        during the transition period for any transitioning
        Niger Delta worker who elects Corps service.

ARTICLE 25. STRATEGIC RESERVES.

(1) The Authority shall maintain strategic reserves of basic-

    needs goods distributed across the six geopolitical zones
    and the major metropolitan agglomerations, sufficient to
    support Nigerian resilience consistent with the Federal
    Ministry of Defence civil-defence and the National
    Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) planning.

(2) Strategic reserves are managed jointly with the Nigerian

    Armed Forces, NEMA, the National Strategic Grain Reserve
    (administered by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and
    Food Security), and the state-level Emergency Management
    Agencies (SEMAs).

TITLE VII - IMPLEMENTATION PHASES

ARTICLE 26. FOUR-PHASE IMPLEMENTATION.

PHASE I - ESTABLISHMENT (Months 0-12). Authority established as a CAMA-incorporated Federal Government-owned company; Board of Directors and Executive Committee appointed; 37 State Delivery Units seated; Productive Capacity Shares issued via the 11-digit NIN + NSIPA + NCTO infrastructure; NSIA + BOI + DBN + BOA Coordination Agreements signed.

PHASE II - INITIAL CORPS OPERATIONS (Months 12-36). Civic Robot Corps of Nigeria commences operations in the priority states (Niger Delta priority + North-East / North-West post- insurgency priority + Lagos / Kano / FCT / Rivers / Oyo / Kaduna metropolitan priority); TCN + GenCos + DisCos Coordination Agreements signed; multilateral-partner coordination operational; NSIA + BOI + DBN + BOA lending up to N575 billion drawn.

PHASE III - NIGERIA-WIDE OPERATIONS (Months 36-72). Corps operations extend to all 36 states + FCT and to a phased rollout across the 774 LGAs; strategic reserves at scale; annual Productive Capacity Dividend in regular distribution on 1 October (Independence Day); REA Solar Power Naija Programme + Nigeria Electrification Project full Coordination Agreements operational.

PHASE IV - STEADY-STATE OPERATING POSTURE (Month 72 onward). Authority reaches steady-state. No sunset.

TITLE VIII - GENERAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 27. EFFECTIVE DATE.

(1) Articles 1 (Short Title), 3 (Declarations), and 28

    (Effective Date) take effect on the date this Act is
    assented to and published in the Federal Government
    Gazette.

(2) Remaining provisions take effect on 1 April 2027.

ARTICLE 28. SEVERABILITY.

If any provision of this Act is held invalid by the Supreme Court of Nigeria or by the Court of Appeal, the invalidity does not affect other provisions that can be given effect.

ARTICLE 29. CONSTITUTIONAL AND CAMA CONSISTENCY.

This Act is enacted consistent with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), particularly Section 14(2)(b) (the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government), Section 14(3) (Federal Character principle), Section 16 (economic objectives), Section 17 (social objectives), Section 43 (right to acquire and own immovable property), Chapter II (Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy), Chapter VI (Executive), and Chapter VIII (Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and General Supplementary Provisions); and with the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020, the Public Procurement Act, 2007, the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007, the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria Act, 2011, and the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, No. 7 of 2007.

ARTICLE 30. INTERPRETATION.

In this Act -

"the Authority" or "NPCA" means the Nigeria Productive Capacity Authority established under Article 4;

"the Corps" or "CRCN" means the Civic Robot Corps of Nigeria established under Article 17;

"the 11-digit National Identification Number" or "NIN" means the personal identification number issued by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) under the National Identity Management Commission Act, 2007;

"CAMA" means the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020;

"NSIA" means the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority established under the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (Establishment, Etc.) Act, 2011;

"BOI" means the Bank of Industry Limited;

"DBN" means the Development Bank of Nigeria;

"BOA" means the Bank of Agriculture;

"NNPC Limited" means the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited incorporated under CAMA in furtherance of the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021;

"TCN" means the Transmission Company of Nigeria;

"GenCos" means the Generation Companies established under the Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005 unbundling;

"DisCos" means the Distribution Companies established under the Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005 unbundling;

"NERC" means the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission;

"NBET" means the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company plc;

"ISO" means the Nigerian Independent System Operator;

"REA" means the Rural Electrification Agency;

"the Electricity Act 2023" means the Electricity Act, 2023 (replacing the Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005);

"NSIPA" means the National Social Investment Programme Agency;

"NCTO" means the National Cash Transfer Office;

"NIMC" means the National Identity Management Commission;

"BVN" means the Bank Verification Number issued by Nigerian banks under Central Bank of Nigeria authority;

"NIPOST" means the Nigerian Postal Service;

"CBN" means the Central Bank of Nigeria established under the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, No. 7 of 2007;

"the Renewed Hope CCT" or "RH-CCT" means the Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer programme administered by NCTO under NSIPA;

"the Co-operative Societies Act" means the Nigerian Co- operative Societies Act providing for the registration and operation of co-operative societies throughout the Federation;

"esusu", "ajo", "adashe", and "asusu" mean the Nigerian indigenous rotating savings and credit associations of the Yoruba, Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo cultural traditions respectively;

"the Marmot quartet" means the four research programmes identified in Universal Foundational Citation C above (Marmot Whitehall, Sapolsky Serengeti baboons, Shively cynomolgus macaques, Blackburn telomere research);

"the replication threshold" means the Casey Handmer formulation identified in Universal Foundational Citation A above;

"the Renewed Hope agenda" means the policy agenda of the Tinubu administration following the inauguration of 29 May 2023;

"Niger Delta states" means the eight states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers;

"Omoluabi" means the Yoruba cultural ideal of integrity, character, and communal responsibility;

"Imeobi" means the Igbo cultural ideal of brotherhood and communal solidarity;

"Mutunci" means the Hausa cultural ideal of human dignity and personhood;

"ordinarily resident" has the meaning given by the National Identity Management Commission Act, 2007, and Nigerian immigration law.

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