Nigeria
153 verified resources for building in Nigeria.
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.
OpenCelliD Nigeria
Free cell-tower location dataset (CSV) covering all four Nigerian operators (MCC 621) with tower lat/lng, operator, RAT and signal strength on a rolling 18-month window. Rural coverage is sparse.
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.
OpenStreetMap Nigeria Extract (Geofabrik)
Daily-updated OpenStreetMap data extract for Nigeria in .osm.pbf (~677 MB), ESRI shapefile .shp.zip (~2.0 GB) and .gpkg.zip (~2.0 GB), plus dated historical snapshots. Distributed by Geofabrik under ODbL.
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.
PayStack.Net
.NET wrapper for the Paystack payment API offering near-complete API coverage through both typed and type-less interfaces, targeting .NET Standard 2.0. Distributed on NuGet as PayStack.Net.
Paylo Commerce MCP
Community MCP server for Nigerian e-commerce, integrated with Paystack.
Population estimates (GRID3 v3.0)
Modelled gridded population raster (100m, GeoTIFF, Aug 2025) covering all of Nigeria, aggregatable to LGA/ward level.
An estimate, not a census, the last census was 2006 and the 2023 census did not happen.
Prembly / Identitypass
KYC aggregator covering NIN, BVN, FRSC, NYSC, voter, passport and vNIN with good docs. Released the open-source FraudLens fraud-intelligence dataset in Mar 2026.
Prembly FraudLens
Open-source fraud-intelligence dataset for Nigerian fintechs (Mar 2026), the first of its kind. Relevant to payment fraud, KYC fraud and account-takeover detection.
QoreID
Broad KYC aggregator covering NIN, vNIN, BVN, DL, voter, FIRS and JTB; the JTB tax-board coverage is unique among providers.
Quidax
Crypto exchange whose free, no-auth USDT/NGN ticker serves as a live parallel-market FX proxy (tracks parallel within ~5–8 NGN).
Use app.quidax.io, not api.quidax.com (SSL error).
Roqqu
Lagos-founded (2018) crypto exchange (~1.7M users) whose Roqqu API Services let merchants generate wallets, send/receive tokens and price markets across BTC, ETH, Tron, BNB, USDT (TRC20), XRP and more, plus fiat rails, BVN/NIN verification and bill/airtime/data VTU.
Seamfix
Biometric-first KYC provider with an enterprise focus and government contracts.
Seerbit
Multi-channel payment provider supporting web, USSD and bank payments, with regional expansion. SDKs in JS, PHP, Python and Java.
Sendbox
Lagos-first, nationwide logistics/delivery API with the best docs in the category. Node.js SDK.
Sendchamp
Africa-focused (Lagos + Delaware) multi-channel communications API for SMS, WhatsApp, voice, email, USSD and multi-channel OTP/verification. Single integration covers several channels; API reference on readme.io with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Sendstack
Sendstack provides a RESTful logistics API for creating and tracking deliveries, managing partners, wallet balances, drops and webhooks across multiple delivery providers. Documentation lists production and sandbox base URLs with app_id and app_secret header authentication.
Shiip
Lagos-focused logistics/delivery provider with a live API.
Shipbubble
Multi-carrier shipping aggregator with a live API. Node.js SDK.
Spitch
Spitch is a Lagos-based voice-AI company (founded Oct 2024) providing ASR (speech-to-text), TTS (text-to-speech) and translation APIs/SDKs for Nigerian languages (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Nigerian-accented English, plus Amharic) so teams can add local-language voice to call centres, media and learning tools.
Squad (GTBank)
Bank-backed (GTBank) payment gateway with strong NUBAN support. SDKs in JS and PHP.
States/LGAs JSON
Zero-dependency JavaScript package (naija-state-local-government) providing Nigerian states, LGAs and senatorial districts; some versions add wards and polling units.