Critical Registrar covers politics, society, the economy, and culture in Nigeria and across Africa, and the point of all of it is to give readers something they can actually rely on. These are the standards that everything we publish is measured against.

Independence

Editorial decisions here get made without input from advertisers, donors, or anyone with a political or commercial stake in the outcome. That's not a slogan; it means no funder gets a preview of a story or a say in whether it runs. Critical Registrar Publishing Group is self-funded and supported by reader donations, and donors have no influence over coverage, no matter the size of their contribution. Where a donation is tied to a particular area of coverage, we'll say so on the relevant section page.

Our journalists don't take gifts, payments, or favors from the people or institutions they cover, and they disclose anything that could look like a conflict, a financial stake, a personal relationship, a past job, to their editor and, when it matters to the story, to readers as well.

Accuracy and Sourcing

If we publish it as fact, we can back it up. The full detail on how that works lives on our Fact-Checking page, but the short version is that named sources beat anonymous ones, disputed claims need more than one source, and original documents beat someone's summary of them.

Fairness

Whoever the subject is, and whatever we think of them personally, the standard doesn't move. When we're reporting something serious about a person or organization, we go to them for comment before we publish and we include what they say back.

News, Opinion, and Everything Between

We run straight reporting alongside opinion, analysis, and reviews, and we don't blur the line between them. The section a piece runs in, how the byline is framed, even the page design, all signal which one you're reading. A review score is a critic's judgment, not a claim about objective fact.

AI Tools

Our approach to AI in reporting is covered in a separate policy.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we say so, in public, as soon as we've confirmed it. Details on our Corrections page.

Accountability

If you think we've fallen short on any of this, inaccuracy, unfairness, an undisclosed conflict, tell us through our Contact. We take repeated or serious lapses seriously internally, and when it's warranted, we address them publicly too.