Where Nigeria’s pension money is invested

Every month the National Pension Commission reports how the country’s pension funds are invested. These are its figures, read from each report and checked before they are published. PenCom’s monthly reports are unaudited.

Total pension assets, August 2026₦31.80trn

On the month
+₦289.4bn (+0.9%)
On the year
+₦5.91trn (+22.8%)

Source: PenCom unaudited industry portfolio report, August 2026.

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Pension funds and mutual funds

How pension funds’ moves line up with money moving in and out of Nigerian mutual funds, and an estimate of what pension funds bought or sold once price moves are taken out, are part of the manager edition. They are not published here.

Methodology, sources and what is missing.