The National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, Nigeria is a policy formation center for bureaucrats, private sector leaders, Army officers, and medium as well as senior-ranked civil servants.

The institute was founded in 1979,as a high- level center for reflection, research and learning, with the primary objective of serving as the nation’s foremost policy ‘think- tank’, and continously develops a crop of top class technocrats of high intellectual capacity, conceptualizes and anchors the implementation of innovative and dynamic policy initiatives and strategies critical for national development..

The Institute, among other things:

• Conducts courses for top- level policy makers and policy administrators.
• Conducts social and public policy research
• Conducts seminars and workshops,
• Organises brainstorming sessions.

Disseminates information through monograph, records, reports and articles on any part of its activities

 Most policymakers in Nigeria have attended the NIPSS.