The Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism

Democracy Deferred

In this investigative series, the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism raises questions about the legitimacy of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. The series, produced by journalists from about a dozen Nigerian newsrooms, incorporates investigative reporting, data analysis and visual storytelling. And while it focuses on the current status and future of democracy in Africa’s most populous nation, it has broader implications: One judge called the reporting a “timely and ominous piece that foreshadows America’s slide into authoritarianism.”

This was “far and away the best entry I’ve read,” one judge commented. CCIJ used “copious amounts of data to illuminate the stakes and consequences when democracy becomes a farce.” 

Read the Winning Work

Broken Promises: Altered voting tallies, poor electoral oversight casts doubt over Nigeria’s presidential elections

Beyond the Facade: Unveiling the Violence in Nigeria’s ‘Peaceful’ Presidential Elections

Truth under fire: The multi-front assault on facts during the 2023 Nigerian election

Faces to their Names: Nigeria’s False Information Merchants 

All Roar and No Bite: Exposing Nigeria’s Paper Tiger Election Laws