1 Wetin dey count as promise wey we fit track
Na di same test we dey use for every president and governor, so di count for one scorecard mean di same thing as di count for anoda one.
- Included
- Clear promise wey di officeholder or im campaign talk before or as di term dey start — from manifesto, di swearing-in speech, official agenda paper (di Renewed Hope Agenda, di Seven-Point Agenda, and so on), budget speech, or promise wey plenty news carry dat time. E must dey concrete enough make person fit check am: a target, a project, a reform wey get name.
- Tracked separately
- Wahala wey di administration no cause but wey dem gree publicly say na dem go fix, dey show under Inherited Fixes — we dey rate am for di same four-point scale, but we keep am apart from campaign promise.
- Excluded
- Big grammar wey no get anything wey person fit measure inside; talk wey person just yarn wey no be part of any real plan; promise wey party people wey no hold di office talk; and things wey dem talk after di time just to describe policy wey don dey ground before.
- Selection within a term
- We dey follow di promise wey matter pass and wey carry weight, across a fixed set of area — economy, security, governance, infrastructure, power, health, education, and rights. Where di agenda get official pillar, we dey rate against dem pillar instead of picking only di part wey go make dem look fine.
Say promise hard to grade no be reason to comot am — na reason to mark am In progress and continue to check.
2 How we dey rate promise
Every promise wey we dey track — and every entry for Inherited Fixes — dey get one of four rating, based on di evidence wey link to am.
- Kept
- Di thing wey dem promise really happen, for around di size wey dem promise, and official record or independent news wey gree confam am. Announcement or launch no be "Kept" — na when dem deliver.
- Partial
- Progress dey wey get proof — money comot, project dey go, dem bring bill, improvement wey person fit measure but wey never complete — wey no reach di size, di reach, or di time wey dem promise.
- Broken
- Di term, or di promise im own deadline, don pass and nothing serious happen; or dem openly drop di promise; or di result wey we measure move di opposite way.
- In progress
- Di time wey dem talk never pass and work dey really go on. We dey use am small-small and we dey check am every review cycle — e no be place wey promise go just sidon forever. For raw data dem dey call am "Pending".
When source dem no gree, na di one wey independent pass and wey recent pass we dey follow, and we go write di disagreement for di assessment. If evidence no dey, we no dey take am as failure: if nothing dey wey person fit confam any way and di deadline never pass, di rating go remain In progress; if di deadline don pass and no sign say anything happen, dat one na Broken.
3 Status words for each category
Every oda category get im own status words, because "Kept vs Broken" no fit court case or appointment.
- Convicted
- Court don find di person guilty.
- Ongoing
- Investigation or prosecution still dey go on.
- Dismissed
- Dem drop di charge or throw di case comot.
- Acquitted
- Court find di person say e no guilty.
Every fraud case also carry one separate government response rating — Pursuing, Stalled, Politicised, Abandoned, or No interference — wey dey describe how di government imsef handle di matter, apart from wetin court decide.
- Implemented
- Dem carry out di order and e get real effect wey person fit see.
- Partial
- Di order, or di way dem enforce am, never complete.
- Reversed
- Di same administration, anoda one, or court cancel am.
- Ignored
- Dem sign am but dem no enforce am.
- Good / Fair / Poor
- Our read on how dem deliver against di ministry im stated work, based on di outcome wey dem report.
- Sacked
- Di president or governor comot dem from office.
- Resigned
- Dem comot from di role by demsef.
- Passed
- Dem sign am make e become law.
- Partial
- E pass one chamber, dem change am well-well, or e stop after e pass.
- Pending
- E still dey move for di law-making process.
- Abandoned
- Dem pull am back, or e just die without anybody touch am again.
- Serving
- E still dey di role now.
- Resigned
- E comot by imsef.
- Sacked
- Dem remove am from di role.
- Govt Won / Govt Lost
- Wetin di ruling talk, from di government side.
- Settled
- Dem settle am outside verdict — like agreement wey both side gree.
- Ongoing
- E still dey for court.
4 Budget words
Where di figure no dey public, we go leave di space empty instead of guess am — check Source & check.
- Total budget
- Di full money wey dem approve for di year.
- Revenue (projected)
- Di money wey di budget assume say go enter, wey dem set as dem pass di budget.
- Revenue (actual)
- Wetin dem really collect, once dem report am officially.
- Deficit
- Di gap between wetin dem spend and wetin dem collect, wey borrow dey usually cover.
- Debt service
- Di part of di budget wey dem dey use service debt wey dem owe before, before dem fund anything else.
- Implementation rate
- Di share of di budget wey dem approve wey dem really spend or release.
- Allocation vs. Released
- Per ministry: Allocation na wetin dem budget give am; Released na wetin dem really pay out.
5 Oda words
- Geopolitical zone
- Nigeria six informal regional grouping, wey we dey mainly use for Appointments to check regional balance:
6 Source & check
Every entry — promise, fraud case, budget line, order — get date and link to im original source. We no dey rate anything without reference wey link to am, and di rating na judgment wey person make against dat evidence, no be something wey machine calculate.
- Primary & official records
- Government gazette and budget paper, data from di NBS, CBN and DMO, court filing and judgment, official agency report. Na di strongest base for a rating.
- Established independent reporting
- Naija and international news house wey get editorial standard and public way to correct mistake.
- Named expert & civil-society research
- Analysis from body like BudgIT or transparency organisation — we dey use am for context and to cross-check di records for top.
- Not used on its own
- Anonymous social media, one-side press release, and government or opposition claim wey person no fit confam on im own. Government fit talk im own claim and we go quote am, but we go mark am as a claim, no be as confirmation.
NGScorecard no dey publish guess wey dem dress like fact. Where dem never publish official figure — like state budget line wey never comot — we go leave di space empty instead of put number wey we calculate. Empty mean "dem never publish am", e no mean "zero".
Every administration carry one reviewed date: di last time we check every entry under am against di evidence wey dey ground now. Administration wey still dey power, we dey check am again on rolling basis — at least two times a year, and after big event like a budget, an election, or a serious court ruling. Administration wey don comot, we go freeze am for im last review unless new evidence show.
If you feel say any entry no correct, don old, or miss context, use di "Report an issue" button wey dey for dat entry im card — e go open one short form (wetin no correct, better source if you get am, and one optional way to reach you) wey go go straight enter moderation queue. If you no wan use di form, you fit send email give mubaraqsanusi908@gmail.com instead. Either way, we dey correct am quick and we go note am for di entry. If dis method imsef change in a way wey affect rating wey dey already, we go check dem rating again against di new standard within one review cycle, and we go record di change for di change log below.
7 Coverage & gap
No be everything we dey follow to di same depth. Dis section dey talk wetin we dey cover, how far back e reach, and wetin dey thin on purpose or because we no fit help am — so short scorecard go read as limit of di record, no be verdict.
- Federal
- Di five president wey dem elect since Fourth Republic start, 1999 till now — Obasanjo, Yar'Adua, Jonathan, Buhari, Tinubu.
- States
- Fourth Republic governors. Coverage dey fullest from 2015 come. E now also reach back through Obasanjo years (1999–2007), so every state get at least dia governor for dat period for record — around 140 state administration total.
- Wetin we never cover
- Any government before 1999 (military era and Second Republic), and local-government level. Dis na possible future addition, no be data wey we get now.
Depth follow di evidence. Recent government get paper trail wey match dia time; 1999–2003 state government sometimes no get one. Where public record only support small entries wey we fit check, dat na wetin we go publish — empty section better pass one wey full with claim wey nobody fit source. Especially, budget and economic-indicator series for most state before around 2010 never get published for a form wey we fit cite, so dem section dey blank plenty for old governor.
Source review for September 2026 find and change plenty dead or link wey no fit verify for di old record. We change some give encyclopaedia or archive reference while we still dey track down di original document. Entry wey still dey rest for weaker source (see di order for section 6) — we dey work to move dem up; card source na always di best one wey dey available now, and "Report an issue" na di fastest way to show us better one.
8 Independence & openness
Tracker wey dey grade politician only worth reading if di grade no dey for sale — and e go dey more useful to everybody if di work free to read, check, and use again.
- Wetin dis be
- Free, open civic-accountability project — public good, no be business. Anybody fit read am, cite am, or build on top of am.
- Who dey decide rating
- Di project editors dey decide rating based on di method wey we publish (section 1–2). No subject, source, or sponsor go see or approve rating before e go live.
- Money
- We no dey run dis project to make profit. E no dey take money from any government, political party, candidate, or campaign, anywhere. If e ever charge for anything (like bulk API access), na so we go fit keep di free version running — e go dey completely separate from di rating process, and we go disclose any sponsorship here.
- Open by default
- Dem publish di dataset under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0); di source code under GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0). Correction, evidence, and translation from di public dey welcome — see section 6, or "Report an issue" for any card.
- Ownership
- Independent project — no dey affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any government body or political organisation.
- Correction pass reputation
- When entry no correct, we go change am and log am (section 9), we no go defend am. Every claim dey link to im source (section 6) so you fit check di work instead of just take our word.
9 Change log
Any big change to how we dey pick or rate promise, we dey record am here, newest first. Small wording fix wey no move any rating, we no dey log am.
- v1.3 7 Sep 2026
- We add section 7, "Coverage & gap": wetin we cover and wetin we no cover, why some old scorecard dey short, and note about di September 2026 source review. We extend state coverage back through Obasanjo years (1999–2007). No rating criteria change.
- v1.2 31 Aug 2026
- We restate section 7 as "Independence & openness": NGScorecard na free, open public good; di dataset na CC BY 4.0 and di code na AGPL-3.0; any paid layer only dey sustain di free version. No rating criteria change.
- v1.1 31 Aug 2026
- We add section 7, Independence — written statement of who dey set rating, di funding policy, and ownership. No rating criteria change.
- v1.0 31 Aug 2026
- First method wey we publish. E write down di standard wey we dey already use: di test for wetin count as promise (section 1), di evidence bar for di four rating (section 2), di source order, and how often we dey check. No rating change because of am.