Nigeria’s National Economic Council (NEC) attracts suspicion because it looks like a serious body designed to do unserious work. Yet that framing misses what NEC is for. Its value is not that it substitutes for executive authority but that it supplies something Nigeria’s economic architecture chronically lacks: a credible mechanism for intergovernmental coordination in a federation where policy routinely fails at the seams between federal ambition and state implementation.
The NEC’s statutory design is plain, established by the 1999 Constitu
