COLUMNS

Deepening procurement reforms for Nigeria’s growth in 2026

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2026

By Sufuyan Ojeifo For much of Nigeria’s modern history, public procurement has worn the reputation of an administrative swamp. It was where good intentions went to lose momentum, where project costs developed suspicious muscles, and where citizens quietly learned to lower expectations.

COLUMNS

“Nigeria First”: How local content policy is powering homegrown prosperity

Daily Dispatch December 31, 2025

By Sufuyan Ojeifo Every great nation learns to build from within. For Nigeria, that moment has come through the Bureau of Public Procurement’s (BPP) bold “Nigeria First” Local Content Policy, a far-reaching reform that places locally made goods and services at the centre of government spending. It is not just a policy adjustment; it is […]

FEATURES

How procurement reforms engineered a trillion-naira turnaround for Nigeria

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2025

By Sufuyan Ojeifo For decades, Nigeria’s public procurement system laboured under an unenviable reputation. It was widely perceived as a creaking colonial inheritance, labyrinthine in process, porous in execution, and more feared as a bureaucratic choke point than respected as a tool of governance. Procurement was something to be survived, not something to be leveraged.

NEWS

BPP Calls for Reforms to Allow for Inclusivity in Agricultural Procurement

Daily Dispatch September 29, 2025

The Bureau of Public Procurement has called for reforms in the procurement system in the country especially for agriculture to ensure inclusivity of all major stakeholders and strata. Speaking at the Workshop on Inclusivity in Agriculture Procurement organised by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) in Abuja on Monday, the Director-General of the Bureau of […]

FEATURES

Nigeria’s procurement reform: New era of transparency and accountability

Daily Dispatch September 29, 2025

By Sufuyan Ojeifo Every year, the United States Department of State releases its Fiscal Transparency Report, a document that often provokes both debate and defence across Africa. In its 2025 edition, Nigeria was included among 32 countries said to face challenges of fiscal transparency, with particular reference to budget execution and the independence of audit […]

NEWS

BPP DG extends deadline for electronic submission of requests, documents to September 8, 2025

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2025

Director General of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Dr Adebowale A. Adedokun, has extended the deadline for the commencement of electronic submission of requests and documents to the Bureau to Monday, 8th September 2025. The extension was a sequel to the Bureau’s circular referenced BPP/DG/2025/250 of 4th August, 2025 on the transition to electronic […]