The House · II
The discipline that makes the record a record — what we cite, what we refuse, how we correct.
Judgments of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, the Federal High Court, the National Industrial Court. The Federal Government Gazette. CFRN 1999 and its Alteration Acts. Records held by the National Archives of Nigeria (Ibadan, Enugu, Kaduna). FOI Act disclosures.
Citation required
OCCRP. Human Rights Watch. Amnesty International. BudgIT. Premium Times. TheCable. The Africa Report. NEITI. ICIJ. Sahara Reporters where corroborated against a primary document.
Two minimum
Monographs of the University Press of Ibadan, OAU, Ahmadu Bello, LSE African Studies, SOAS, Edinburgh African Studies. Cited for context only — never as the sole authority on a finding.
Context only
Encyclopaedic aggregators, partisan Substacks, and unsigned blog posts are never cited. They are not used as 'a starting point'. They do not appear in the link graph of the archive.
No exceptions
Where a public figure has been alleged to have committed an offence, the entry records the forum in which the allegation was made, the date, and the disposition — convicted, acquitted, struck out, pending, withdrawn.
Sums are recorded in the currency and unit of the source document. Where comparison is useful, we provide a CBN-consistent USD equivalent at the year of the transaction, never today's rate.
Where the Federal Government Gazette and a private outlet disagree on spelling, transliteration, or honorifics, the gazette prevails. Cross-references are added for searchability.
Every correction is published with the date, the prior text, the new text, and the source on which the change is based. Corrections are accepted within seven days of a verifiable submission.