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NigeriaPolls (the "Platform", "we", "us", "our") is an independent, non-partisan public opinion research and political-data publisher operated in Nigeria. Information published on the Platform — including poll results, indices, official directories, news monitoring, and editorial content — is provided for civic, informational and research purposes only. Nothing on the Platform constitutes legal, electoral, financial, medical or professional advice.

Poll results published on NigeriaPolls are statistical snapshots of the opinions held by sampled respondents at the time of fielding. They are subject to sampling error, mode-of-administration effects, weighting decisions, and ordinary respondent volatility. NO POLL RESULT PUBLISHED ON NIGERIAPOLLS.NG CONSTITUTES A PREDICTION, FORECAST, OR GUARANTEE OF ELECTION OUTCOMES, MARKET PRICES, POLICY DECISIONS, OR ANY FUTURE EVENT. Readers should always review the methodology note attached to each poll — including field dates, sample size, margin of error and weighting variables — before drawing conclusions. Where the Platform reports results to a confidence interval, that interval describes statistical uncertainty only and does not warrant the underlying truth of any answer given by a respondent.

The “In the News” section on each official’s profile and the site-wide /news-feed contain items submitted by third-party automated monitoring agents that scan publicly accessible Nigerian news sources, social-media feeds and parliamentary records. Each item is clearly labelled “Unverified — AI-monitored” and links back to its original source. NigeriaPolls has not independently verified each individual claim contained in these items. Readers must always verify through the original source link. We provide a one-click “Report issue” button on every monitored item; flagged items are reviewed and may be hidden, with a public reason where appropriate. Items below our internal confidence threshold are auto-hidden pending manual review.

Profiles of governors, senators, House of Representatives members, state-assembly members and federal cabinet officials are compiled from public records, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) website, the National Assembly directory, official state-government websites, Hansard, party communications, and reputable Nigerian news media. We strive for accuracy but cannot guarantee that every contact detail (email, phone, parliamentary office) is current. If you are a public official or authorised representative, you may claim and verify your profile via /politics/officials//claim. To request correction or removal of any specific information, contact legal@nigeriapolls.com and we will respond within seven (7) working days.

The “Verified announcements” section is restricted to public officials whose identity our verification team has confirmed. Verified statements are published as authored by the named official or their authorised staff. NigeriaPolls does not endorse the content of verified statements; we provide a neutral platform for direct civic communication. Officials remain solely legally responsible for the content they publish. We reserve the right to hide statements that violate our civic guidelines (incitement, hate speech, defamatory allegations) and may revoke verification on evidence of impersonation.

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Constituent comments are user-submitted, phone-verified messages directed at named officials. Comments are moderated before publication; we may reject, edit or remove content that is defamatory, threatening, sexually explicit, hateful on protected grounds (Cybercrimes Act 2015, s. 24), or that violates other applicable Nigerian laws. Users grant NigeriaPolls a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual licence to display, archive and re-publish their comments in connection with the Platform. Submitting false personal information or impersonating another person is prohibited and may be reported to law enforcement.

All editorial content, indices, charts, design and software on NigeriaPolls are © NigeriaPolls unless otherwise marked. Polling data sets are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) and may be reused with attribution and a link back. Photographs of public officials are used under Nigerian fair-dealing principles for purposes of news reporting, criticism and review; copyright in those photographs remains with the respective copyright holders. Excerpts from official Hansard, INEC publications and government websites are used under Crown / public-information principles.

NigeriaPolls publishes public polling for civic and journalistic purposes. We do not engage in paid promotion of any candidate or party. Where the Platform conducts custom research for political clients, those engagements are confidential and conducted within the requirements of the Electoral Act 2022 and INEC guidelines on campaign-related polling. Our public polls are funded through subscriptions, custom-research engagements, grants and authorised commercial partnerships; we publish a list of significant funders annually on our /about page.

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