Several projects hold Nigerian leaders to account, and they are not the same. This page sets out what each one covers and publishes, so you can choose the right one, or use more than one.
| Feature | NGScorecard | Promise TrackerAdvoKC | Track My LeaderStellar Patterns Development Centre | OurNigeriaA coalition of data scientists, journalists and citizens | Pledge TrackerTinubumeter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run by | An independent project, being set up as a not-for-profit. It takes no money from political parties, candidates, office holders or the agencies it tracks. | AdvoKC, a youth-led civic tech organisation based in Lagos. | Stellar Patterns Development Centre, a non-profit. | A coalition of data scientists, journalists and citizens. It describes itself as open source. | Townhall Media, with the African Development Documentation Initiative. |
| Who it covers | 217 administrations: every federal government since 1960 and elected state governors back to 1979, including all 36 sitting governors. | Presidents and state governors, plus Senate and House of Representatives agenda trackers. | More than 183 profiles of presidents, governors, ministers, senators and lawmakers. | Governors, senators, House and state assembly members, LGA chairpersons and ward councillors across 36 states, 774 LGAs and 8,809 wards. | One president: Bola Tinubu, with 250 campaign promises. |
| What it records | Promises and manifestos, ministers and appointments, executive orders, fraud cases and court judgments, budgets, capital projects, indicators, inherited problems and legislation. | The most important promises of each office holder, each with dated progress updates. | Tenures, loans, audits and promises. | FAAC allocations (2019 to 2024), state budgets, tracked projects and election results. | Campaign promises. |
| How promises are rated | Kept, partial or mixed, broken, in progress, or not yet assessed, under a published methodology with a version number and change log. | Kept, broken, compromised, stalled, in the works or not yet rated. Reporters research each promise before rating it. | Not stated in its public description. | Not its focus. It reports spending, allocations and projects rather than rating promises. | Promise kept, compromise, not done, stalled, in the works or not yet rated. |
| Evidence shown | Every promise links to its source. Capital projects, and a growing share of other entries, are also labelled by source type: official record, independent reporting, expert analysis or weak source. | Dated updates on each promise. | States that every record is linked to a credible source. | Names the official bodies it draws on, including the Budget Office, the Accountant-General, the Debt Management Office, INEC, BPP, CAC, EFCC and ICPC. | No per-promise sources shown on its main page. |
| Corrections and reader input | Every change to a rated entry is logged publicly on the entry itself (more than 300 so far), and every card has a "Report an issue" button. | Readers can submit a promise and follow a tracker by email. | Not stated. | Not stated. | Not stated. |
| Data access | Free API with an instant key, an embeddable widget, and a full dataset download, all under CC BY 4.0. | No public API or data download found on the site. | Not stated. | Free CSV downloads. No API mentioned. | No API or download mentioned on its main page. |
Track My Leader: The site did not load fully when we checked, so this column is taken from its own published description.
"Not stated" means we found nothing on the site either way. It does not mean the project does not do it.
Covers 217 administrations, back to 1960 for federal governments and 1979 for elected governors. The same pledge, such as fixing power supply, can be followed across administrations on the recurring commitments pages.
See recurring commitments →Promises sit beside the records that show what happened: more than 1,300 tracked promises, alongside fraud cases, executive orders, court judgments, budgets and more than 360 named capital projects.
See capital projects for one administration →Every promise links to a source, and capital projects are labelled by the kind of source behind them, so a reader can tell an official record from a single news report.
Read how sourcing works →When an entry changes, the change is logged on the entry itself, with the reason. Readers can report an error from any card.
Read the methodology and change log →A free API, an embeddable widget and a downloadable dataset, all under CC BY 4.0, so newsrooms, researchers and other tools can build on the data.
See the API and widget →It takes no money from political parties, candidates, office holders or the agencies it tracks, and publishes that policy.
Read the funding policy →These projects are doing useful work, and in places they go further than we do.
If something here about another project is wrong or out of date, email mubaraqsanusi908@gmail.com and we will correct it.
