Civic library

Know your power before you vote.

Plain-English guides to your rights, how accreditation works, what counts as malpractice, and how to report it.

Reporting

An Open Letter to Nigeria's Next President, on Our 66th Independence Day

The next president will inherit a country with urgent problems to fix. But fixing today's problems cannot be the whole vision. What should Nigeria be building toward when today's voters become tomorrow's grandparents?

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Your rights

Is Nigeria Actually Democratic? Let's Talk

When was the last time a decision that affects your daily life, fuel prices, electricity tariffs, minimum wage, got made with your interests genuinely at the centre of it, not just announced to you afterwards as something already settled?

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Civic basics

What Happens to Your Vote After You Cast It? A Nigerian Election Explained

You cast your vote, but your vote doesn't end at the ballot box. From accreditation and counting at your polling unit to electronic transmission, collation and the final declaration, here is what actually happens between your ballot and the result you eventually hear announced.

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Civic basics

Nigeria Is Not a Jungle: Jungle Justice, a Crime with an Audience

A generation raised on this will not necessarily grow up more violent, but it may grow up less disturbed by violence, and that is arguably worse. Laughter that used to be reserved for jokes is now being spent on someone else's degradation, and nobody seems to be counting the cost of that exchange.

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Civic basics

What the President Can (and Can't) Actually Do

We argue endlessly about what the Nigerian president can do, yet few of us have ever opened the Constitution to find out.

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