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Strengthening Public Procurement Systems with Accountability Lab Nigeria’s AI-Enabled Open Contracting Tool

Procurement processes in Nigeria are often opaque and difficult for the public to access or understand. Citizens barely have no way of knowing how public contracts were awarded, and journalists struggle to uncover discrepancies hidden in hard copy procurement documents. This is as a result of manual, outdated and opaque processes allowing loopholes, inflated contracts, and weak compliance to thrive, leaving communities disconnected from the very services meant to serve them. “The truth is, people don’t ask questions when there’s [...]

By |2025-12-03T20:16:37+05:00December 3, 2025|Home Blog, News, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Why Nigeria’s public procurement system keeps failing citizens

Across Nigeria, public infrastructure projects are meant to symbolize progress; new roads, hospitals, schools, bridges and drainage systems that promise better lives for citizens. Yet, in many states, these projects have instead become symbols of frustration and distrust. A 2025 report shows that poorly executed projects and half-completed structures have become a norm with communities left stranded by inefficiency and corruption. Recent findings from Accountability Lab Nigeria’s radio engagement in Edo, Ekiti, and Plateau States reveal deep-seated systemic gaps in [...]

By |2025-11-25T14:54:03+05:00November 6, 2025|Home Blog, News, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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When Citizens Speak, Change Happens: The Restoration of Illawe Road in Ekiti State.

Located at the heart of Ado-Ekiti in Ekiti state, the Illawe road is one of the major town roads, a 2-lane road that connects neighbourhoods, markets, and business hubs. For decades, it has served several economic benefits, facilitating the movement of goods, easing access to schools,  healthcare facilities, and supporting small businesses that depend on mobility. Beyond commerce, it has also been central to daily life, enabling community members to travel safely and efficiently for work, trade, and social activities. [...]

By |2025-11-25T14:54:50+05:00September 9, 2025|Home Blog, News, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Community Concerns on Accountability Lab Nigeria’s Radio Show Prompt Edo and Ekiti State Government to Tackle Infrastructure Gaps

“We’ve always felt ignored when it comes to community infrastructure , but the radio program gave us a platform to speak and be heard. Now, the government is acting and it shows that change is possible.”- Listener In Edo State, a growing crisis in the primary healthcare sector has long plagued citizens, many of whom were left without access to affordable or quality medical care. Recent data shows that communities across the state have been grappling with dilapidated public healthcare [...]

By |2025-06-05T21:37:12+05:00June 5, 2025|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Rising Mortality Rate: Plateau State Grapples with the Consequences of Failed Governance

Despite budgetary allocations and stated commitments, Nigeria continues to record some of the worst maternal and child mortality rates globally. One of the evident states is in Plateau State, where healthcare infrastructure is in decline, community health workers are in short supply, and communities are left in crisis. Uncompleted projects, like the Gindiri Public Health Care (PHC) facility, exemplify systemic governance failures and what the Plateau State Government can do to course-correct.  Nigeria records approximately 2,300 children under the age [...]

By |2025-05-21T02:30:19+05:00May 21, 2025|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Accountability Lab Nigeria develops an AI-integrated platform that simplifies public procurement data in Edo, Ekiti, and Plateau States.

In Nigeria, limited access to public procurement data remains a major challenge, allowing inefficiencies and misuse of resources to go unchecked. If procurement data is inaccessible, how can the public ensure funds are used responsibly by the government and contractors? Data from the Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC) shows that getting procurement information through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests is often difficult. Over 91.84% of these requests either take more than 14 days to get a response or receive [...]

By |2025-03-26T18:22:05+05:00March 26, 2025|News|0 Comments
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Special Remarks by Mr. Maximilian Menhard, Associate Programme Officer, UNODC at the high-level meeting “Tackling Procurement Fraud and Its Far-Reaching Consequences: A Collective Responsibility”

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to today’s meeting on procurement fraud, on behalf of Mr. Cheikh Toure, UNODC Country Representative in Nigeria, who regrets being unable to attend due to overlapping commitments. This meeting, organized at the margins of the International Anti-Corruption Day 2024, offers a crucial opportunity to raise awareness about procurement fraud, commit to integrity in public procurement, and agree on relevant actions. Corruption in public procurement has a profoundly negative impact on government spending, [...]

By |2024-12-17T00:41:18+05:00December 17, 2024|Anti-corruption, News|0 Comments
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Kalyem Kognet: The Police Officer Going Against The Grain

On February 26, 2024, the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) dismissed one of three officers involved in the extortion of $3,000 from two Nigerians. The officer, Michael Odey, a police inspector, was dismissed after Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Alifa Omata, of Zone 16, Bayelsa State,  upheld the recommendation of the Rivers State command. The dismissal was announced by Rivers State police spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko. Odey was one of the three officers recommended for dismissal by the Rivers State Command [...]

By |2024-11-05T15:42:35+05:00November 5, 2024|News|0 Comments
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The Evangelical Police Officer, CSP Innocent Ayabotu

Data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on corruption and policing reveals that, in 2019, police officers in Nigeria accounted for the highest number of bribes paid to public officials in the country, at 35.7%.  Data from another survey done by UNODC and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on  Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns and Trends published in 2024 suggests that that one out of two male police officers (46 per cent) engage in bribery when interacting [...]

By |2024-11-05T15:34:08+05:00November 5, 2024|News|0 Comments
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Mowoe Ivan Okoro, Inspiring Young Lawyers To Achieve Greater Heights

“Who do you think you are? Step down a little; you take matters too seriously.” These are some of the words thrown at Mowoe Okoro by fellow lawyers and judges, intended to pressure and discourage him from defending the truth. But he is never cowed. Upon graduating from the University of Benin in 1998, Okoro proceeded to law school in Enugu State, graduating in 2001. On February 26, 2003, he was called to the bar and started working as an [...]

By |2024-11-05T15:26:59+05:00November 5, 2024|News|0 Comments
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