How We Protect Public Trust

Naija Reality is an independent civic intelligence platform. We are not affiliated with any political party, candidate, campaign, government agency, or government institution.

The platform does not endorse or oppose any political party or candidate. Our role is to help citizens document lived experience and turn verified participation into public civic intelligence.

We may publish data that appears positive, mixed, or negative depending on what participants report. We do not adjust results to favour any political outcome.

Naija Reality is powered by voluntary public participation. The results reflect the lived experiences of verified platform participants, not a scientific national census.

We clearly disclose that participation may be affected by internet access, digital literacy, awareness of the platform, and geographic representation gaps.

As participation grows, Naija Reality becomes more useful for identifying patterns across states, categories, and time — but it should not be described as a statistically representative survey of all Nigerians.

The Current Administration National Reality Index, or NRI, is our flagship civic intelligence metric. It summarises verified Reality Check responses into a national benchmark.

The NRI is based on citizen-reported lived experience across nine categories: Economy, Security, Electricity & Infrastructure, Employment & Standard of Living, Healthcare, Education, Youth & Digital Economy, National Economy, and Social Wellbeing.

Scores, category weights, verdict thresholds, and methodology notes are published openly so users can understand how the index is calculated.

Naija Reality collects only the information needed to calculate civic intelligence, protect data quality, and prevent abuse.

The current Reality Check focuses on people who live in Nigeria or spend significant time in Nigeria and directly experience local conditions. A dedicated Diaspora Reality Check is planned for the next phase of the platform.

Public reporting is based on aggregated results. Individual responses are not displayed publicly as personal records.

Naija Reality is designed around anonymous participation. We do not publish participant identities or individual-level submissions.

Where verification, abuse prevention, or platform security tools are used, they are used to protect data quality and platform integrity, not to publicly identify participants.

We do not sell individual participant data. Public data views are based on aggregated civic intelligence.

Not every submission is automatically counted in public results. Responses may be reviewed through trust and abuse-prevention checks before being included in national, state, or category summaries.

Aggregation-eligible responses are responses that pass data quality checks and can be used in public calculations.

This protects the platform from duplicate participation, suspicious patterns, automated submissions, and attempts to manipulate public results.

Naija Reality uses participation controls, duplicate detection, response validation, suspicious pattern checks, and aggregation rules to reduce manipulation.

The platform is designed to measure changing lived experience over time, not to allow repeated voting that distorts public results.

Participants may update their Reality Check approximately every six months so the platform can track whether lived experience has improved, worsened, or stayed the same.

Naija Reality may include public opinion polls, manifesto analysis, and promise tracking as part of its broader civic intelligence mission.

Where these modules are active, we will distinguish clearly between citizen-reported data, official public records, editorial analysis, and AI-assisted summaries.

Promise tracking and manifesto-related content must be based on public evidence, documented sources, and consistent standards applied across political actors.

Some reports or summaries may be created with AI assistance to help analyse trends, structure findings, or explain public data more clearly.

AI-assisted content will not replace the underlying data. It will be used to support interpretation, not fabricate results.

Important public insights should be reviewed before publication and clearly framed as analysis based on available participation data.

Naija Reality uses modern database, access-control, and platform security practices to protect submitted data and administrative systems.

Access to sensitive systems should be limited to authorised personnel only.

If a serious security issue is discovered, Naija Reality will investigate, take corrective action, and communicate responsibly based on the nature of the issue.