TERMS OF USE

Last updated: May 2026

QUICK SUMMARY

  • Naija Signal provides public safety information, incident tracking, news references, and situational awareness tools.
  • Naija Signal is not an emergency service, law enforcement agency, government authority, or security agency.
  • You should verify critical information through official channels before making safety-critical decisions.
  • You must not submit false, misleading, defamatory, harmful, or privacy-invasive reports.
  • Naija Signal may review, edit, redact, restrict, remove, or decline to publish submitted content.
  • External news and source links remain the responsibility of their original publishers.

Naija Signal is not an emergency service. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent assistance, contact the appropriate emergency services, local authorities, or trusted safety professionals.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

By accessing or using Naija Signal, you agree to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you should not use the platform.

NATURE OF THE SERVICE

Naija Signal provides public safety information, security incident tracking, news aggregation, community reporting, state-level information, road corridor monitoring, and situational awareness tools related to Nigeria.

Naija Signal is not an emergency response service, law enforcement agency, government authority, security agency, rescue service, or professional safety advisory service.

If you are in immediate danger or require urgent assistance, contact the appropriate emergency services, local authorities, or trusted safety professionals.

NO SAFETY-CRITICAL RELIANCE

Information on Naija Signal is provided for general public awareness and situational understanding. It may be incomplete, delayed, inaccurate, unverified, or subject to change. You should not rely solely on Naija Signal to make safety-critical, emergency, travel, security, legal, or financial decisions. Always verify important information through official channels and trusted local sources.

USER REPORTS AND SUBMISSIONS

When you submit a report, correction request, comment, message, or other content to Naija Signal, you agree that:

  • The information you provide is accurate to the best of your knowledge.
  • You will not knowingly submit false, misleading, malicious, defamatory, fabricated, or harmful information.
  • You will not submit reports intended to harass, threaten, expose, endanger, or unfairly target any person.
  • You will not include unnecessary personal information about victims, witnesses, minors, private individuals, or vulnerable persons.
  • You will not submit content that incites violence, panic, discrimination, vigilantism, retaliation, or unlawful activity.
  • You have the right or permission to submit any content, evidence, link, image, or material you provide.
  • You understand that submission does not guarantee publication.

REVIEW, MODERATION, AND PUBLICATION

Naija Signal may review, edit, redact, label, delay, reject, restrict, remove, or decline to publish any report or submitted content.

We may take these actions for reasons including accuracy concerns, safety risks, privacy risks, legal concerns, duplicates, spam or abuse, defamatory or harmful claims, missing source information, unverified or misleading content, and protection of victims, witnesses, minors, or vulnerable persons.

VERIFICATION AND ACCURACY

Naija Signal may classify information using labels such as verified, reviewing, unverified, developing, corrected, or removed. These labels are provided for informational purposes only. We do not guarantee that all information is complete, current, accurate, or suitable for safety-critical decisions. Incident reports may come from community submissions, public sources, news references, official statements, or other open sources. Each source may have limitations.

THIRD-PARTY NEWS AND SOURCES

Naija Signal may display, summarize, categorize, reference, or link to third-party news articles, public sources, official statements, or external resources. Third-party content remains the responsibility of the original publisher or source. Naija Signal does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, legality, availability, or reliability of third-party content. Links are provided for public awareness and convenience.

CORRECTIONS AND REMOVAL REQUESTS

If you believe information on Naija Signal is inaccurate, outdated, private, harmful, defamatory, wrongly attributed, or unsafe to display, you may submit a correction or removal request through our Corrections page. We may update, label, redact, restrict, or remove information after review. Submission of a correction request does not guarantee that content will be removed.

PROHIBITED USE

  • Submit false, misleading, or fabricated incident reports.
  • Harass, threaten, defame, impersonate, expose, or endanger others.
  • Publish private personal information without lawful basis.
  • Identify, target, or intimidate victims, witnesses, minors, or vulnerable persons.
  • Incite violence, panic, discrimination, vigilantism, retaliation, or unlawful activity.
  • Upload malware, spam, or harmful code.
  • Interfere with the security, availability, or operation of the platform.
  • Scrape, copy, harvest, or republish platform data at scale without permission.
  • Use the platform for surveillance, doxxing, stalking, targeting, or unlawful intelligence gathering.
  • Misrepresent Naija Signal as an official government, law enforcement, or emergency service.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Naija Signal, including its name, logo, design, interface, original content, data organization, and platform features, is owned by or licensed to Naija Signal. You may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, resell, or exploit Naija Signal's content, design, database, or platform features except as permitted by law or with written permission. Third-party content, news articles, logos, trademarks, and source materials remain the property of their respective owners.

LICENSE TO SUBMITTED CONTENT

By submitting content to Naija Signal, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, review, store, display, reproduce, modify, redact, summarize, categorize, publish, and distribute the content for the purpose of operating, improving, securing, and promoting the platform. This license allows us to display reports, create summaries, show map markers, review submissions, handle corrections, and maintain public safety records. You retain any rights you have in your submitted content.

ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY

Some features may be public, limited, restricted, invite-only, or unavailable during testing. We may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the platform at any time.

DISCLAIMERS

Naija Signal is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not guarantee that the platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, complete, current, or free from inaccuracies. We do not guarantee the accuracy of community-submitted reports, third-party sources, news references, maps, locations, risk indicators, or automated classifications.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Naija Signal and its operators will not be liable for losses, damages, injuries, claims, or consequences arising from use of or reliance on platform information, inaccurate or delayed information, user-submitted reports or third-party content, actions taken by users based on information found on the platform, platform interruptions, errors, or security incidents, or external links or third-party websites.

INDEMNITY

You agree to be responsible for any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, or expenses arising from your misuse of Naija Signal, your violation of these Terms, your submitted content, or your violation of any law or rights of another person.

CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of the page. Your continued use of Naija Signal after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

CONTACT US

For questions about these Terms, contact us through contact@naijasignal.com, our Contact page, or our Corrections page.