The National Institute is breaking new grounds in all direction. On Monday, September 11, 2023, the Director General and some management members paid a courtesy call on the Managing Partner of Bruit Costaud, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and his partners. The visit provided the opportunity for the two organisations to agree on some strategic areas of collaboration such as: capacity building, exchange of staff, research, policy advocacy. The organisation, an affiliate of Ballard Partners, USA, is having in-roads into policy advocacy amid diplomacy in Nigeria.