Publications

Publications

What we find while tracking what Nigerian leaders promised and what they delivered.

  • 20 September 2026

    Which seven-point agenda?

    How Nigerian political promises go missing before anyone can hold them

    A president said he would rely on a seven-point agenda that formed his compact with voters. We went looking for it, and found at least four different lists. Across the administrations we examined, promises went missing in four ways: absent, generic, unstable and migrated.

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  • 27 September 2026

    The bridge everyone commissions

    How Nigerian infrastructure credit follows the ribbon, not the money

    A president in Ijaw royal dress cutting a ribbon on a bridge his predecessor's deputy flagged off four years earlier. A governor commissioning a road his own political enemy started. Across the projects we track, the person who claims credit for delivering infrastructure is often not the one who paid for it, built it, or was even in office when it began.

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