Nigeria
67 verified resources in APIs for building in Nigeria.
GIGL
Pan-Nigeria interstate logistics provider with a developer programme.
Now at giglogistics.com, the old gigl.com.ng domain is dead.
Grey
Cross-border/multicurrency platform (foreign USD/GBP/EUR accounts, FX, virtual cards, transfers to 170+ countries, USDC payouts) regulated by FINTRAC (Canada) and FinCEN (US). Grey Business markets developer-friendly APIs to automate payouts, but there is no public developer documentation portal.
Hello Tractor
Hello Tractor exposes a developer API across financial services, telemetry ingestion and marketplace domains for banks, OEMs, dealers and integrators building on its tractor-sharing ecosystem. The developer hub describes authentication, pagination, errors and webhooks but the full endpoint reference requires approved collaborator sign-in.
HollaTags
USSD specialist with deep USSD integration for Nigerian banks; enterprise USSD focus.
Juicyway
Cross-border money platform with an API for accepting payments (cards, bank transfers, crypto, Interac e-transfers), payouts, currency exchange and wallets across NGN/CAD/USD/USDT/USDC. Provides sandbox and production endpoints plus API-key authentication.
Kora
Borderless-Africa-focused payment provider with strong API design. Bundles payments with KYC; minimal GitHub presence, Node SDK only.
Kora (KYC)
Payments-plus-KYC bundle covering BVN, vNIN, NIN, passport, voter and TIN. Good for combined payment and identity flows.
KudiSMS
Nigerian CPaaS offering an HTTP SMS API (promotional, transactional and OTP) plus email, WhatsApp Cloud and voice (pre-recorded + TTS) channels. Supports corporate/promotional sender IDs and documented response codes; community PHP/Node wrappers exist on GitHub.
Kwik Delivery
Lagos last-mile delivery provider with a documented API (hosted on Apiary).
Lenco
Business-banking platform exposing an API over its accounts: balances/transactions, virtual account creation, automated disbursement, bill payments and POS/terminal management. Docs are hosted on ReadMe with v1.0/v2.0 references.
Maplerad
Financial infrastructure (BaaS) to embed banking via REST/JSON APIs covering card issuing, USD/virtual accounts, collections, transfers, FX, crypto, bill payment and identity. Provides a sandbox after signup; official Node and Go SDKs exist on the Wirepay GitHub org (now archived).
MetaMap
Global identity provider with Nigeria coverage across NIN, business and tax verifications, including a FIRS TIN lookup.
Miden
Miden is a Y Combinator W24 card issuer-processor and banking stack for Sub-Saharan Africa, founded in 2022 in Ikeja, Nigeria. Its API lets enterprises launch card programs in NGN and USD virtual cards, business accounts, Wallet-as-a-Service, collections and transfers.
Monierate
FX rate API aggregating 40+ exchanges and providers, including parallel-market sources (API-side parallel coverage unconfirmed).
Monnify
CBN-licensed PSSP by TeamApt with a bank-first model and NUBAN integration. SDKs in 5 languages including Java and .NET; no official Go or TypeScript SDK.
MyCover.ai
MyCover.ai is a Nigerian open insurance API platform founded in 2021 that lets businesses embed auto, health, travel, gadget, life and content insurance via REST APIs and low-code SDKs. It ships official JavaScript and React Native SDKs on npm under the @mycoverai scope.
NiMet Weather
Free official Nigeria-specific weather API from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency. Genuinely official and free, but poorly documented and rarely listed.
Nomba
Payments provider combining POS, virtual accounts and a payments API for physical and digital commerce. Node SDK.
Octamile
Octamile is a Nigerian insurtech founded in 2021 providing embedded insurance infrastructure that lets non-insurance businesses bundle insurance into their products. Its public developer portal documents an Insurance Management Assistance Service JSON API covering premium calculation, policy purchase, certificates, claims and vehicle valuation.
Okra
Open-banking data provider that pioneered the category in Nigeria.
Shut down May 2025, listed for historical reference only. Do not integrate.
OnePipe
Banking-as-middleware provider that connects fintechs to Nigerian commercial banks.
Opay
Large-scale Nigerian payments provider supporting USSD, QR and web payments. Limited SDK coverage.
OpenSanctions (NIGSAC)
Free path to Nigeria's NIGSAC sanctions list (138 entities) via REST API and bulk download, updated daily.
Commercial use requires a paid OpenSanctions licence.
Paga
CBN-licensed Nigerian payments company whose Paga (Pagaengine) APIs cover the Collect API, Business API, Paga Connect and Merchant Services for collecting payments, disbursements/transfers and airtime/data/bills. SDKs for Java, PHP, Python and Node.js, with sandbox, IP whitelisting and hashing-based auth.