The team.
The people who built the project, the data behind it, and the fellowship that supported it.
Ameze Belo-Osagie
Mez founded and directs the Nigerian Elections Research Project, a large-scale data-gathering effort stemming from her dissertation. She holds a BA cum laude from Yale, a JD from Harvard Law School, and is completing a Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Called to the California Bar, Mez aims to combine her legal and political knowledge to understand the role of the courts in regulating Nigerian democracy, tracing how and why tribunals generate accountability for electoral malpractice. As an Archivi.ng fellow, she works to bring this research out of the academy and into the public square, giving Nigerians a systematic view of the legal contests that will shape the 2027 election. In her spare time, Mez enjoys drama—of the literary, theatrical, and artistic kind—and is trying to revive her long-neglected bookstagram.
Ahmed Eka
Ahmed manages the database for the Nigerian Elections Research Project, maintaining the systems that organise the project's corpus of digitised tribunal judgements and overseeing the scanning, archiving and quality-control pipeline that keeps the record reliable and accessible. He builds the project's data-entry and comparison tools: the coding instruments and validation the team relies on to enter and check the record. Additionally, he produces data visualisations from the coded cases. Ahmed holds a bachelor's degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and is completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at the National Open University of Nigeria. He brings six years of prior experience in humanitarian data, having worked on data tracking with the United Nations migration agency. In his spare time, Ahmed enjoys football, spending time with his family, and mentoring young people pursuing careers in IT.
Stellamaris Echefu
Stellamaris is the Legal Research Coordinator for the Nigerian Elections Research Project, where she coordinates the legal research team, oversees judgment-coding assignments, and works with project leadership on the adjudication and quality assurance of every coded judgment — the calibration that keeps the coded record consistent. She holds an LL.B from Nnamdi Azikiwe University and was called to the Nigerian Bar after graduating from the Nigerian Law School with First Class Honours and the prize for second-best student in Civil Litigation. Having worked on an election-petitions team led by Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, she brings both legal expertise and courtroom experience to the study of election litigation and judicial decision-making in Nigeria. In her spare time, Stellamaris enjoys legal and crime dramas.
Uyo Emmanuela Emeje
Uyo is a Legal Research Assistant on the Nigerian Elections Research Project, where she analyses and codes election-petition judgments as part of the legal research team. She holds an LL.B from the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, and a BL from the Nigerian Law School, graduating with Second Class Upper Honours from both, and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2025 as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She is also a certified mediator, trained at the Mediation Training Institute of Nigeria. In her spare time, Uyo enjoys music, reading novels, and keeping fit.
Euodias Emmanuel
Udy is a Legal Research Assistant on the Nigerian Elections Research Project, where she analyses and codes election-petition judgments as part of the legal research team. She holds an LL.B from the Nigeria Police Academy, Kano, and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She is currently pursuing an LLM at the University of Abuja. In her spare time, Udy enjoys collecting books, exploring new places and food, and finding stories — whether in books, films, or everyday conversation.
Samson Ojodomo Onuche
Samson is a Legal Research Assistant on the Nigerian Elections Research Project, where he analyses and codes election-petition judgments as part of the legal research team. He holds an LL.B from Kogi State University, a BL from the Nigerian Law School, Abuja, and an LLM in Public Law from Bayero University, Kano, and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Abuja, and has published wide-ranging work in public law, on questions including pre-trial detention, the regulation of gambling, and anti-corruption efforts, alongside experience across legal practice, academic research and policy projects. In his spare time, Samson enjoys reading and mentoring young lawyers and students.
Theophilus Silas
Theo is a Legal Research Assistant on the Nigerian Elections Research Project, where he analyses and codes election-petition judgments as part of the legal research team. He holds an LL.B from the University of Ilorin and a BL from the Nigerian Law School, and is currently completing an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Theo has served as Prosecuting Counsel with the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, Directorate of Legal Services. In his spare time, Theo enjoys fiction, music, and the occasional exercise in judicial reasoning that does not involve an actual courtroom.
Ugochukwu Anthony Onyeyiri
Ugochukwu is a Legal Research Assistant on the Nigerian Elections Research Project, where he analyses and codes election-petition judgments as part of the legal research team. He holds an LL.B from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and a BL from the Nigerian Law School, Abuja, graduating with Second Class Upper Division honours in both, and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is an Associate at SimmonsCooper Partners, advising on commercial disputes, corporate transactions and regulatory matters, having previously gained litigation experience at the chambers of Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, and Adamson Adeboro, SAN. In his spare time, Ugochukwu enjoys playing and watching football, and is an avid reader with a keen interest in electoral and constitutional law, politics, international affairs and public policy.
Fukky Danladi Mashat
Fukky is a Legal Research Assistant on the Nigerian Elections Research Project, where she analyses and codes election-petition judgments as part of the legal research team. She holds an LL.B and an LLM, awarded with Distinction, from the University of Jos, and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, with around seven years of post-call experience across corporate, criminal, civil and human-rights practice. She is currently completing a PhD in Legislative Drafting at the Federal University, Lokoja, and brings a background in people management as a certified member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management. Outside her legal work, Fukky is a committed humanitarian advocate.
Shalom Kangeh
Shalom oversees the Judicial Register team, the group building the project's database of the judges who decide Nigeria's election petitions. She organises fieldwork across 17 states, covering five of Nigeria's six geopolitical zones, sources and arranges interviews with judges and other key electoral figures, and transcribes the interviews that feed the register. She also coordinates the project's operations and grant administration, helping keep the wider project running. She holds an LL.B from the University of Ilorin and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. In her spare time, Shalom enjoys reading and advocating for children and vulnerable communities.
Khalifah Akeera
Khalifah is a Research Assistant on the Judicial Register team, where he arranges and conducts outreach for interviews, manages fieldwork logistics, and contributes to and fact-checks the register of election-petition judges. He transcribes and de-identifies the interviews that feed the register, and sources judgments and court documents that underpin the project's research. He also tracks pending litigation to seed the project's public-facing explainers, pulling records from the courts to support that work. He holds an LL.B from Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, and a BL from the Nigerian Law School, and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. In his spare time, Khalifah enjoys listening to music.
Mofeoluwa Joda
Mofeoluwa is a Research Assistant on the Judicial Register team, where he coordinates stakeholder interviews across ten states and contributes to and fact-checks the register, which now covers over seven hundred Nigerian judges. He manages fieldwork logistics, transcribes and de-identifies the interviews that feed the register, and provides fact-checking and editorial support for the project's public-facing explainers. He holds an LL.B from the University of Benin, where he was a prizewinning international mooter — part of the team that won the 2025 Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, at which he was named Overall Best Oralist of the championship rounds. In his spare time, Mofeoluwa enjoys studying history, watching football, and repeatedly reading the Harry Potter novels.
Gift Sopuruchi Eze
Gift is the Archives and Records Research Assistant on the Nigerian Elections Research Project, where she sources judgments from the archives, follows records requests through to delivery, and maintains the relationships with the courts and records authorities that the project depends on. She organises the project's case files and prepares the materials the research team works from each week, keeping the documentary pipeline behind the whole project running. She holds a BSBA in Business Economics from Adamson University, Manila, and an MBA from AMA University, Manila. Her earlier career in customer care built the relationship-management skills she now brings to securing and organising the project's records. In her spare time, Gift enjoys films, reading, and travelling.
Archivi.ng
The project was developed under an Archivi.ng Fellowship, which supports work that documents and opens up Nigeria's public record.
Mowa Product Studio
Designed and built the site, turning the project's datasets into an interactive public archive, with the dashboard, the maps, the case library, and the admin tools the team uses to keep it current.
Product and engineering by Sesi Morgan