Research notes

Full governance record for Benue State (all governors/deputy governors, commissioners, state assembly, senators/reps, budget/IGR/debt by year) still being compiled. Primary sources: Human Rights Watch, *Military Revenge in Benue* (Apr 2002) and *"Leave Everything to God": Accountability for Inter-Communal Violence in Plateau and Kaduna States* (Dec 2013); Amnesty International, *Harvest of Death* (Dec 2018); ACLED Nigeria datasets; SBM Intelligence Quarterly Security Reports; BudgIT *State of States* (2018–24); INEC and National Assembly Library.