The federal authorities has unveiled Nigeria’s Nationwide Mental Property Coverage and Technique (NIPPS), a complete framework aimed toward reworking the nation’s artistic and progressive capability into sustainable financial worth for companies, creators and buyers.
The coverage, authorised by the Federal Government Council (FEC) on November 6, 2025, represents a strategic shift in positioning mental property (IP) as essential financial infrastructure quite than a purely authorized concern.
Talking on the public presentation, the minister of Trade, Commerce and Funding, Jumoke Oduwole, stated the coverage was designed to handle longstanding challenges round monetisation, entry to capital and enterprise scalability for Nigerian innovators and artistic enterprises.
“Nigerians are extremely prolific in innovation and creativity, however the important thing query has all the time been tips on how to monetise these concepts, guarantee entry to capital and permit companies to scale with out being acquired cheaply by international pursuits,” Oduwole stated.
She famous that, greater than 50 per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Home Product now comes from providers, together with the artistic economic system, tourism, science and know-how, making a sturdy IP framework important for financial diversification and MSME development.
Representing the Everlasting Secretary of the ministry, director of Coverage Planning, Analysis and Statistics, Yiwa Joseph, defined that, the coverage introduces a whole-of-government strategy, chopping throughout trade, commerce, justice, tradition, training, science and know-how.
“An efficient mental property ecosystem should permit rights to be registered effectively, protected credibly, commercialised virtually and enforced pretty for creators, entrepreneurs, buyers and authorities,” Joseph stated.
The director normal of the Nigerian Copyright Fee, John Asein, representing the Lawyer Normal and minister of Justice, stated the coverage adopts a people-centred strategy that locations Nigerian creators and innovators at its core.
In response to him, NIPPS is designed to stay accessible, balanced and responsive, significantly within the context of digital transformation, synthetic intelligence, data-driven creativity and cross-border providers which might be reshaping worth creation globally.
The coverage outlines over 57 programmes and tasks with timelines starting from one to 5 years. Key initiatives embody the overview of the Patents and Designs Logos Act, the operationalisation of the Plant Selection Safety Workplace, and deeper collaboration with innovation hubs, analysis establishments and MSMEs.
Registrar of Patents and Designs on the ministry, Jane Igwe, stated the coverage went via in depth revalidation after consultations with greater than 200 stakeholder teams who expressed issues about insufficient safety beneath earlier frameworks.
The NIPPS additionally aligns with Nigeria’s obligations beneath the African Continental Free Commerce Space (AfCFTA), the place commerce in items, providers and digital commerce more and more intersects with mental property rights.
