Between 2024 and 2025, the Federal Government established Regional Development Commissions (RDCs) for five Nigerian geopolitical zones, bringing the total to six. This followed the Northeast Development Commission (NEDC), created in 2017 to oversee a ‘Marshall Plan’ for the region recovering from Boko Haram violence. The new RDCs are tasked with planning and implementing key programmes – infrastructure, industrial and social development, and ecological recovery – using funds from dedicated federal contributions.