In the long arc of how nations manage the wealth drawn from beneath their soil, Nigeria's Sovereign Investment Authority has emerged as a case study in institutional discipline — a $3.57 billion fund built from $1 billion in seed capital over little more than a decade. The International Monetary Fund, surveying a global sovereign wealth landscape that has grown from $3 trillion to $16 trillion since 2008, has pointed to Nigeria's legally separated fund structure as a governance model worth emulating. The moment carries weight beyond Nigeria's borders: as these vast pools of public capital expa