Nigeria and the World Bank agencies to tackle specific issues in low and middle income countries. Since then, Nigeria has partnered up with the IDA, specifically built to help low income countries and give out loans for very low interest rates, and the IBRD. Nigeria is currently the most populated country in Africa and it’s also the biggest oil exporter and in addition to this it is has the second biggest economy in Africa. All of these qualities make it a country with great economic potential, but Nigeria also faces great development challenges. It's not until 1999 that a democratic regime finally took over Nigeria
ECOWAS Policy on Science and Technology (ECOPOST) the field of research. ECOWAS was barely more visible in the second "African Innovation Outlook", with just six countries contributing data on research and development out of 19 across the continent: Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Ghana, Mali, Senegal and Togo. Nigeria was totally absent and only Ghana and Senegal provided a full set of data for all four performance sectors. Subregional training workshops were organized for countries by ECOWAS in 2013 and 2014 on science, technology and innovation indicators and how to draft research proposals. ECOWAS has taken other steps recently to tackle the lack of technological impact of the