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A live map, real-time alerts, and a developer API for every security incident across Nigeria. The ground truth global feeds miss, without the analyst-report wait.
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Logistics & Supply Chain
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NGOs & Humanitarian
Duty-of-care field alerting at a fraction of the global tools.
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Every incident OpenWatch tracks, plotted live across all 36 states and the FCT, with filters, alerts, and the intel feed in a single view.
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Across the North-West last month, Zamfara and Katsina saw the most kidnapping activity, clustered around Maru and Jibia. Kaduna followed, concentrated on the Abuja-Kaduna corridor.
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Every kidnapping, robbery, attack, and protest plotted the moment it is reported, filterable by state, type, and severity.
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Watch an area, a route, or a category and get notified by email the instant something happens inside it.
Situation case files
Related incidents and their follow-ups threaded into one situation, from the first attack through the response, the rescue, and the arrests, with a written intelligence brief.
Ask the archive
Put any question to the incident archive in plain English and get a sourced, grounded answer in seconds. The analyst's desk, on demand.
Route & corridor risk
Score a journey before anyone takes it. Corridor-level risk for the roads your people and cargo actually travel.
Briefs & reports
Daily intelligence briefs and a monthly state-by-state report: the narrative layer on top of the raw feed.
Developer API
Pull the same real-time incident data into your own systems, or have matching incidents pushed to your webhook. The only self-serve incident API in the region.
State risk index
Every state and the FCT ranked by reported incidents and fatalities, updated from the live record every hour.
Live from the feed.
A helicopter reportedly crashed in Igbokoda, the headquarters of Ilaje Local Government Area in Ondo State, on Monday. Many people are feared dead, though the exact toll and the cause have not been confirmed.
NAFDAC seized alcoholic beverages worth about N300 million packaged in sachets and small PET bottles under 200ml during enforcement raids on major markets in Lagos. The operation targeted distributors and retailers of the prohibited products.
Suspected gunmen attacked a vigilante post at Mangor in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing at least two vigilantes and injuring three others.
A 14-year-old boy drowned and another child remains missing after both were swept away by a river in Dapchi community, Bursari LGA, Yobe State. Emergency teams and local divers launched a search-and-rescue operation, recovering one child's body while the search for the second continues.
A dispute between Aguleri and Umuoba-Anam communities over the erection of a signpost and installation of security cameras at Otuocha Market turned violent, killing five people and injuring several others. Houses, shops and a rice processing factory were burnt, and the state government ordered the market closed.
An OSPAC vigilante operative allegedly shot dead a man in Omoku on the night of 1 October 2026 after ordering him and another person to sit on the ground, then secretly buried the body in a shallow grave. Police arrested the suspect and recovered the alleged firearm.
The story behind the data.
The Cost of a Corridor: What Nigeria's Highway Attacks Mean for Freight and Fleets
For any business that moves goods or people by road in Nigeria, the highway is the single largest point of exposure, and it is not evenly dangerous. The threat concentrates on specific corridors, at specific hours, in ways the incident record makes visible. Here is what the data says about the routes that carry the most risk, and how a fleet turns that into a decision.
Duty of Care in Nigeria: What the Law Expects, and What the Data Demands
Any organisation with staff in Nigeria, or sending them there, carries a duty of care: a legal and moral obligation to take reasonable steps to keep them safe. In a country this large and this uneven, "reasonable" is not a vague standard. The incident record defines it. Here is what duty of care actually requires on Nigerian ground, and how to meet it.
Where to Operate, Where to Harden: Reading Nigeria's Risk Map for Business
Companies expanding in Nigeria tend to read its security map two ways, both wrong: as a country uniformly dangerous, or as one where the busiest city is the riskiest. The incident record says neither. It says the threat is specific, it varies by state, and the mitigation that works in one place is useless in the next. Here is how to read it for a siting, hardening or expansion decision.
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Build on the feed.
No Nigerian incumbent sells a real self-serve incident API. We do. Query the same data that powers the live map, filter by state, type, and recency, and stream new incidents straight into your stack.
$ curl api.openwatch.ng/v1/incidents?\ state=lagos&since=24h { "id": "inc_8f3ac1", "type": "kidnapping", "state": "Lagos", "lat": 6.5244, "lng": 3.3792, "confidence": 0.91, "published_at": "2026-06-26T14:32:00Z" }