Nigeria
153 verified resources for building in Nigeria.
Flutterwave
Pan-African payment processor with the broadest SDK coverage (13 languages) and international remittance support. Acquired Mono in Jan 2026.
GDP/CPI time-series (World Bank API)
Free, no-auth JSON API for Nigerian macro time-series: GDP, CPI inflation, FDI, remittances, employment and more. The best developer-accessible source for Nigerian economic data.
LGA Boundaries (GRID3)
Authoritative, OSGOF-backed LGA boundary polygons for all 36 states plus FCT (Dec 2020) in GeoJSON/SHP, no auth required.
Mono
Open-banking data-access provider for account, identity and transaction data, with KYB tooling. Acquired by Flutterwave in Jan 2026 but still operates independently. Ships a dev sandbox Docker image.
NaijaML
Production-ready NLP library (v0.2.1, Mar 2026) covering all 4 Nigerian languages, running in 4GB RAM with no GPU, with PII masking for NIN/phone. The most practical Nigerian AI resource for developers.
Paystack
CBN-licensed payment gateway and the market leader, with the best docs and widest adoption. Owned by Stripe. SDKs in Python, JS, PHP and .NET, plus an OpenAPI spec and official Postman collection.
Paystack MCP
Official PaystackOSS MCP server exposing the full Paystack API dynamically via its OpenAPI spec. The best-maintained Nigerian MCP.
Smile ID
Most comprehensive Nigerian KYC provider, covering 9 government databases (NIN, BVN, DL, passport, voter and more) with biometric verification.
Termii
Nigeria-focused communications API for SMS, OTP, voice and USSD with the best docs and the only documented DND-aware routing. No official SDK; community SDKs fill the gap.
YarnGPT2b
Nigerian-accented English TTS and ASR model (Jan 2025) with 11 voices, trained on Nollywood and podcast audio.
nigerialogos (PaystackHQ)
SVG/PNG logos for all Nigerian banks and fintechs, a widely used hidden gem.
ACLED conflict data
Event-level conflict and crime data with extensive Nigeria coverage (banditry, kidnapping, farmer-herder conflict, oil theft) via REST API, CSV and R/Python packages.
Recommended over the GTD, which is frozen at 2020.
AbokiFX
The only dedicated parallel-market FX API, providing CBN, parallel, BDC and ATM rates via REST with current, historical and movement endpoints.
CBN threatened sanctions in 2021 (lifted Jul 2023); some regulatory risk persists.
Africa API MCP
Community MCP server with 40 tools covering economy, FX, trade and data across 54 African nations. Broadest Africa coverage.
Africa GPU Hub
First Nigerian GPU rental marketplace (Udutech, Lagos), offering GPU cloud compute at under $1/hr.
Africa Payments MCP
Community MCP server providing a unified payments layer across M-Pesa, Paystack, MTN MoMo and Flutterwave.
Africa's Talking
Pan-African communications API for SMS, USSD and voice, with confirmed USSD for Nigeria across all four major operators (MTN, Airtel, Glo, 9mobile).
Africa's Talking Airtime MCP
Community MCP server for airtime top-up via Africa's Talking.
Africa's Talking SMS MCP
Community MCP server for pan-African, multi-country SMS via Africa's Talking.
Anchor
Full Banking-as-a-Service provider with an official MCP server that exposes its API docs as live queryable context. SDKs in Python and JS; ships a dev sandbox Docker image.
Anchor MCP
Official Anchor MCP server exposing its BaaS API docs as live queryable context.
Awarri
Awarri is a Lagos-based AI and robotics company that built N-ATLaS, Nigeria's first government-backed open-source multilingual LLM (Llama-3 8B fine-tuned on ~392M tokens of English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba), in partnership with NCAIR and the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy. It also operates the LangEasy data-collection platform.
Bani
Cross-border payments API for paying African suppliers via local-currency rails (NGN, GHS, KES, XOF, SLE and more) and stablecoins on one integration, with collections, payouts and virtual accounts across 16+ countries. Auth uses a bearer token plus a MONI-SIGNATURE HMAC-SHA256 header.
BankFxApi
Free JSON API serving daily CBN-sourced NGN rates against 14 currencies.