The authors are very grateful to project partners and colleagues in Nigeria for supporting and contributing to this research.
Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) provided expertise, advice and training, and we would like to thank Dr Yemi Kale (Statistician General), Tunde Adebisi, Biyi Fafunmi, Lola Talabi-Oni, Shamsudeen Lawal, Lucky Ogidan, Bridget Ebhodaghe and Peter Adanegbe. We are also very grateful to Rakiya Onize, David Kudevi, Okere Akujobi Uchegbulam, Abdulkadir Mohammed Sumda, Geoffrey A. Agu, Odey Timothy Ite, Odeh Gowon and Moses Sanda Dabai, the NBS field personnel who worked with our survey teams in the field to provide advice and help ensure the safe and smooth conduct of the survey.
We are thankful to our survey teams across Nigeria for their advice on the survey script and the translations, and for their hard work, commitment, and dedication to ensuring quality research and data gathering, often in very difficult circumstances. We are grateful to our partners at:
- The Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa – with a survey team comprising Philomena Mathew Demshemino, Maryam Muhammad Jika, Abba Hakim Abubakar and Mark Polycarp, and led by Elizabeth Adebayo, professor of agricultural economics.
- The Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue – with a survey team comprising Tough Benjamin Terzungwe, Dr Rhoda Dewua Ebi, Ingyer Mercy Mnguzamber and Dr Adole Raphael Audu, and led by Professor Euginia Member George-Genyi, Department of Political Science.
- The Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu – with a survey team comprising Ijeoma Igwe, Dr Elias Chukwuemeka Ngwu, Doris Ijeoma Okohu-Ajah, Chukwudi Christopher Nwokolo, and led by Dr Anthony Ajah, lecturer, Humanities Unit, School of General Studies.
- The NBS and the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), FCT Abuja – with a survey team comprising Mark Faison, Yetunde Mosunmola, Ahmed Abdul and Akindele Ogunleye, and led by Rakiya Onize of the NBS.
- The Christopher Kolade Centre for Research in Leadership and Ethics (CRLE), Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos – with a survey team comprising Azeezat Ajibola, Chika Nwogu, Ibironke Ojesebholo and Nonso Malachy Anagboso, and led by Dr Kemi Ogunyemi, director of CRLE and senior lecturer in business ethics, managerial anthropology and sustainability management.
- The Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers – with a survey team comprising Dr Aaron Anyanabia, Dr Adaku Ubelejit-Nte, Theophilus Akujobi and Dr Grace Udoyen, and led by Dr Chioma Daisy Onyige, senior lecturer, Department of Sociology.
- The Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto – with a survey team comprising Hauwakulu M. Dantake, Abubakar Jibril, Muhammad Shehu and Risikat Rufa’I, and led by Dr Sulaiman Y. Balarabe Kura, Department of Political Science.
The authors are also grateful to the experts, civil society representatives and academics who participated in interviews and roundtable discussions for this research, including: Clement Nwankwo and colleagues at the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC); Idayat Hassan of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD); Samson Itodo of Yiaga Africa; Yemisi Nathaniel, Zainab Abdurasheed, Shafiu Barde and Mohammed Maifada of the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA); Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); Anthony Agadeze of the Democratic Faith Advocacy Centre in Enugu; Abdullahi Njidda Damare of Pathway Awareness and Community Development Association, Adamawa; Amina Auwal of Concerned Citizens Initiative for Awareness and Peace (CCIAP), Adamawa; and Benjamin Ngablai of Pampam Development Initiative, Adamawa. We are thankful to Odeh Friday and Ehi Idakwo of Accountability Lab Nigeria, and to the Adamawa and Enugu survey teams detailed above, for their support with convening focus group discussions in January 2022.
The Social Norms and Accountable Governance (SNAG) project benefits greatly from the Chatham House partnership with the Center for Social Norms and Behavioural Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania and, in particular, from the involvement and expertise of Cristina Bicchieri, S. J. P. Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
The authors would also like to thank Elizabeth Donnelly, former deputy director of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, and Fergus Kell, the SNAG project coordinator, for providing research guidance and support. The authors are grateful to Tighisti Amare, Catherine Harris and their former colleague Justine Kavanagh, of the Africa Programme, for logistical support, research assistance and field management of this project. Thanks also go to Vera Chapman Browne of the Chatham House publications team for her skilful editing of this work, and to the whole publications team for their support in transforming the research into this briefing paper series.
Chatham House would like to thank the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for its generous financial support for this project, and the Foundation’s On Nigeria programme team in Chicago and Abuja for their input and support.
