In a capital city long constrained by the gap between ambition and budget, Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission has placed before the Federal Capital Territory a different kind of question — not how to spend less, but how to borrow smarter. At an investment summit in Abuja in August 2026, SEC Director-General Dr. Emomotimi Agama pointed to a N217 trillion capital market and argued that roads, rail, housing, and clean energy need not wait on annual government allocations. The instruments exist — bonds, REITs, green finance, tokenized securities — and so does the legal framework to deplo