The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) ranked first out of 53 federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) assessed in the 2025 Business Facilitation Act (BFA) Performance Report, with an overall score of 90.6 percent.
The ranking was released by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) as part of the Federal Government’s statutory review of compliance with the Business Facilitation Act, which focuses on service delivery timelines, transparency of requirements, responsiveness to enquiries, and complaint resolution over the January–October 2025 assessment period.
Under the report’s methodology, NCDMB recorded the highest aggregate score across the four BFA compliance pillars, placing it ahead of other agencies assessed during the review cycle.
What the Ranking Measures — and What It Does Not
The BFA assessment is designed to evaluate process compliance and administrative efficiency, rather than broader indicators of institutional performance such as governance quality, regulatory outcomes, sectoral impact, or value-for-money considerations.
PEBEC’s scoring framework draws on:
Published service standards and timelines
Responsiveness to official enquiries
Resolution of complaints logged via ReportGov.ng
Mystery shopping exercises testing user experience
The report does not assess issues such as policy effectiveness, regulatory judgment, financial management, enforcement outcomes, or long-term sector performance.
Context Within the Wider Federal Rankings
NCDMB’s first-place ranking contrasts with the broader results of the 2025 assessment, which show a wide dispersion of performance across MDAs. Several agencies recorded low-teen or single-digit scores, while others failed entirely on efficiency compliance under the BFA framework.
The report highlights a persistent gap between agencies that meet basic administrative benchmarks and those that struggle to comply with statutory service obligations, reinforcing concerns about uneven implementation of ease-of-doing-business reforms across government.
Sectoral Relevance
NCDMB is responsible for administering Nigeria’s local content framework in the oil and gas sector, including approvals, compliance monitoring, and stakeholder engagement with operators and service providers.
As a business-facing regulator, its inclusion at the top of the BFA rankings places it among a small group of agencies that met the Act’s procedural benchmarks during the 2025 review period, according to the report.
PEBEC said the rankings are intended to guide engagement with agency leadership and targeted process improvements, rather than serve as a comprehensive evaluation of institutional effectiveness.
