It monitors hundreds of open sources across the country and turns the noise into a verified, mapped, searchable record of every security incident, from kidnappings and banditry to terrorism and unrest, updated in real time.
OpenWatch is an open-source intelligence (OSINT) platform focused entirely on Nigerian security. Open-source intelligence means intelligence built from information that is already public: news reports, official statements, and verified social posts. The hard part is not finding it, it is separating the signal from the noise, at scale, fast enough to matter.
That is the work OpenWatch does. It reads the flood of open reporting on Nigerian security, verifies what actually happened, and turns it into a single record of incidents that is mapped, timestamped, and searchable. The result is local security intelligence you can act on, without the wait of an analyst report or the price of a global feed.
Every incident on the map runs through the same open-source intelligence pipeline, from raw report to a scored, geolocated record.
OpenWatch continuously watches hundreds of open sources: Nigerian news outlets, official government and security feeds, and verified social accounts. This is the raw material of open-source intelligence, gathered the moment it is published.
AI reads every report and pulls out the security incidents that matter, what happened, where, when, and who was affected, discarding rumour, opinion, and noise in the process.
The same event is often reported by a dozen outlets. OpenWatch collapses those duplicates into a single incident, so one attack is counted once, not twelve times.
Each incident is resolved to the exact town, road, or landmark the report named, then plotted on the live map, so risk sits at street level rather than smeared across a whole state.
Every incident carries a confidence score and a traceable link back to its sources, so you can weigh each record and check the reporting for yourself.
OpenWatch tracks over 29,000 verified incidents, with records reaching back to 2009, drawn from more than 30 tracked sources across all 36 states and the FCT. See how the risk breaks down state by state on the State Risk Index.
Abductions for ransom and mass kidnappings.
Armed raids on villages, farms, and highways.
Insurgent attacks, bombings, and armed assaults.
Highway, home, and commercial robberies.
Farmer-herder and inter-community clashes.
Protests, riots, and civil disturbances.
Know what is on the route and around the depot before a truck rolls.
Due-diligence any parcel or site with incident history plus live monitoring.
Power your service with verified local data and resell it under your brand.
Duty-of-care alerting for field teams at a fraction of the global tools.
Verify and break Nigerian security stories against a searchable record.
See the security picture across Nigeria before you go, not after.
Credibility in security intelligence comes down to one thing: can you trace it. Every incident in OpenWatch is sourced, timestamped, and confidence-scored, with a link back to the open reporting it came from. Nothing is asserted that you cannot check.
That record, tens of thousands of verified incidents spanning more than a decade and every state in Nigeria, is what makes OpenWatch useful. Not a single alert, but the full, queryable picture of where and how risk moves across the country.