About ONYX

Nigeria produces a lot of data. Most of it is hard to trust.

ONYX is a structured intelligence platform for the Nigerian economy — built for the institutions that cannot afford to be wrong.

The ONYX data cube: source, geography and timeThree planes meeting at right angles, each a four-by-four grid. One axis is the publishing source, one is geography from state down to local government area, and one is time. An observation in ONYX is addressed by all three together.SOURCETIMEGEOGRAPHY
The gap we're filling

The data problem is broken in two directions.

If you are a development finance institution, a private equity firm, or a consultancy making a Nigeria decision, you already know this.

The official sources — NBS, CBN, DMO, NUPRC — publish rigorous data. But it is scattered across hundreds of reports, formatted inconsistently, and requires months of aggregation before it can be used for analysis. A senior analyst is spending two weeks collecting data before they can start the actual work.

The alternative — global terminals — treat Nigeria as a thin slice of an "Africa" bundle. A handful of macro series, updated sporadically, with no sector depth and no visibility into how the numbers were constructed.

The result: serious institutions are making consequential allocation decisions on data they cannot fully trust, because there has been no infrastructure layer between the raw sources and the analysis. ONYX is that infrastructure layer.

The platform

50+ sectors & domains. 800+ indicators. Every number with its source.

ONYX ingests data directly from Nigeria's canonical primary sources — NBS, CBN, DMO, NUPRC, FIRS, NPA, and the IMF — and structures it into a single, queryable intelligence platform. Every observation is timestamped, linked to its source report, and cross-checked. When sources agree, we publish the canonical value. When they disagree, we surface the divergence and keep the alternates as receipts.

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Triangulation
Every figure is cross-checked across a minimum of two canonical sources. When sources report different values, the divergence is flagged — not silently averaged.
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Provenance
Every observation carries its source institution, the specific report it came from, its publication date, and its as-of date. Click through to the original from any data point.
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Reconciliation
When a figure is revised or superseded, ONYX keeps the prior values. The canonical value wins; the alternates are preserved as a full revision trail.
Built for

Built for institutional work on Nigeria.

DFIs & MDBs
Country diagnostics, sector deep dives, and project pipeline analysis — all traceable to primary sources, without rebuilding the data layer on every engagement.
PE & VC Firms
Sector-level conviction building and portfolio monitoring across every major vertical of the Nigerian economy. Know what the canonical sources say before you run your model.
Consultancies
Pull validated macro and sectoral numbers in minutes, not weeks. Every figure cites its source — so your deliverable inherits the rigour.
Corporates & Investors
Market entry analysis, demand sizing, and scenario planning grounded in verified Nigerian data — not estimates built on top of estimates.
Why we exist
"Nigeria deserves the same quality of structured, institutional-grade economic intelligence as any G20 market. The infrastructure to build it already exists in the public source data. The problem is not data availability — it is data architecture."

Our vision is to be the intelligence layer for global capital in African markets. Nigeria is where we start, because no other market combines the scale, complexity, and data scarcity in the same measure. Get Nigeria right, and the model is proven for the continent.

The founder
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Sheriffdeen L.
Founder & CEO, ONYX Data & Intelligence
I built ONYX because I kept encountering the same problem: serious institutions making Nigeria decisions on data that was either free-and-unstructured or expensive-and-opaque. Neither is defensible in an investment committee.

ONYX started from a conviction that the problem is not data availability — it is data architecture. The canonical sources are there. What was missing was a platform that structures, reconciles, and delivers them to the standard that institutional work requires.

See it for yourself.

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