About us

The Insight is a non-profit platform for investigative/research-based journalism. It emphasizes the use of open secondary data combined with interviews with experts and diverse visual tools in writing and publishing stories. The Insight strives to provide a new kind of service for the public, by helping them to understand patterns of available information and make decisions based on The Insight’s findings. The platform aims to provide readers with explainers, analyses, interpretation of issues and events in order to help to find solutions to social, political and economic challenges in Nigeria. There is a deliberate effort to embed accountability and transparency elements in the stories published on this platform about the public sector in Nigeria.