Naija Compass: where do you really stand on Nigeria?
A free, anonymous test built on Nigerian issues — subsidy, the naira, state police, restructuring, zoning. Find your position on five axes and track how your views change.
Ask most Nigerians where they stand politically and you'll hear a party, a candidate or a region. Ask them what they think about fuel subsidy, state police or how oil revenue should be shared, and you get a much more interesting answer, and often a surprising one.
That's the idea behind Naija Compass, a free tool we've just launched. It takes about five minutes, asks about issues rather than personalities, and shows you where you actually stand.
Why another political compass?
Online political quizzes are everywhere, but nearly all of them are built for American or European debates. They ask about gun control or the NHS, then sort you into labels that don't map neatly onto Nigerian politics.
Nigeria's real dividing lines are different. Plenty of people are socially conservative but want the state to protect them economically. Questions about state police, resource control and regional autonomy often split people more sharply than tax or trade. And whether someone votes on issues or on region and religion can matter more than any of it.
So we built a compass around Nigeria's own debates.
How it works
You rate 30 statements from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree". They cover live questions such as:
- Should fuel prices be set by the market?
- Should the naira float freely, without CBN controls?
- Should each state be allowed its own police force?
- Should states keep more of the revenue from resources on their land?
- Should the presidency rotate between North and South?
No party or politician is named anywhere in the test. You answer on the issue, not the tribe.
Your answers place you on five axes:
| Axis | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | State | Market |
| Authority | Libertarian | Authoritarian |
| Society | Progressive | Conservative |
| Federalism | Centralist | Restructurist |
| Voting | Civic | Identity-based |
The first two give you a familiar compass chart. The last two, federalism and voting style, are the ones we think explain Nigerian politics best.
Track how your views move
Your result isn't a one-off. Every time you retake the test, Naija Compass adds it to your personal tracker, so you can see how your position shifts after a budget, a protest, a policy reversal or an election.
The tracker shows your path on the compass, a trend line for each axis and a table of every result. It works across devices with a private recovery code.
Anonymous by design
Political views are personal, so we built privacy into the tool from the start:
- No sign-up. We never ask for your name, email or phone number.
- No IP addresses stored. Your results are linked to a random code, not to you.
- Optional context only. You can share your state, age group and similar details to help us see how views differ across the country, or skip every question. Your result is the same either way.
- Shared only in combined form. Individual answers are never published. Any figures we share are anonymised and combined across many people, and any group smaller than 20 people is hidden.
- Your data, your call. You can permanently delete all your results at any time.
The full details are on the privacy page.
See where Nigeria leans
As more people take part, the Insights page builds a picture of the country's views: the average position, how people split across the compass, and how views differ by state, age, education and more.
With the next general elections approaching, we think that picture is worth having. It's a view of what Nigerians believe on the issues, not just who they'll vote for.
Naija Compass is a discussion tool, not a scientific poll, and it isn't affiliated with any party, candidate or government agency.
Take it, then pass it on
The more people from different states, backgrounds and generations who take part, the more useful the picture becomes for everyone.
- Take the test. It takes about five minutes.
- Share your result with friends, family and your group chats. There's a copy button on your result page.
- Come back in a few months and see whether you've moved.
Where do you stand? Find out on Naija Compass →
Naija Compass is built and run by Shedfactory. If you're working on a civic, media or research project and want to build something similar, talk to us.
