The Republic is the public record of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, kept by citizens for citizens. It collects the Constitution, the Acts of the National Assembly, the cabinets, the commissions of inquiry, the figures of the federal budget, and the long written history of governance in this country into a single, continuous archive.
We started in 2024 because the documents were already there — in the gazettes, in the judgments of the Supreme Court, in the reports of the Auditor-General, in the National Archives at Ibadan — but they were not findable, not readable, and not maintained as a working civic instrument. A citizen who wanted to know what the 1999 Constitution actually says about state policing, or how much was stolen during a particular administration, had to know first where to look.
The archive is free. It accepts no advertising, no state funding, no donations from any party, candidate, or office-holder. It carries no paywall and no tracking. It is built so that a citizen — a journalist, a teacher, a litigant, a student — can verify a claim in under sixty seconds.
The Republic carries no advertising and accepts no funding from any government, party, or candidate. It is currently self-funded — and reader-supported.
What we are not
We are not a news organisation. We are not a campaign. We are not a legal practice. The site does not constitute legal advice, and on matters of personal stake a qualified practitioner must be consulted. Where the archive cites an allegation, it cites the forum in which the allegation was made and, where applicable, the outcome.
Who keeps it
The editorial work is independent and pseudonymous in part by design — to keep the record above the politics it records. Corrections are public and dated. Sources are credited in every entry. Wikipedia is permitted only as a flagged tertiary reference where a primary or secondary source is still being verified — never as load-bearing evidence on a contested point.
By the numbers
391 chapters in Nigeria's Stories, 30 presidential addresses in the Speeches archive, 117 entries in the Heroes index — alongside the full Constitution, every federal Act, every State Act we have sourced, every commission of inquiry and every panel report, every Head of State from Sir George Goldie (Royal Niger Company, 1879) to the present, every paramount stool in the Diversity Atlas (525+ living languages, 371 ethnic groups, 200+ recognised thrones), and the foreign royal correspondence catalogued at Monarchies & Foreign Ties. Every figure is recomputed at build time from the underlying data; nothing here is a manually edited tally.
Write to us
For corrections, additions, or to contribute a sourced entry, use the form. Cite the section and the primary document you would prefer. We do not publish a public email address (spam degrades the archive); messages routed through the form reach the editors within the day.