LabariMapHow it works
LabariMap puts news on a map. Every story is a dot: its colour says whether it is good or bad news, and its size says how serious it is.
Reading the map
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Red | Bad: harm to people, or a road or area that is unsafe or blocked. |
| Amber | Caution: disruption, delay or risk, but passable. |
| Green | Good: something got safer or easier. |
| Grey | Neutral: information with no immediate effect. |
| Bigger dot | More serious, from 1 (minor delay) to 5 (deaths or an attack). |
| NOW | Reported or updated in the last hour and still ongoing. |
| Faded dot | Older news. Dots fade with age, then leave the map. |
| Hollow dot | Unverified: only one source so far. |
Using it
- The map opens on your area. Pick it with the ★ button and choose “Make it my area”.
- Click a dot for a summary. Click again for the full story, its updates and every source.
- Filter by colour, size, type and time: Now, 24 hours, 3 days, or a past date with the calendar.
- Use Route check to see every report along the road from A to B, with a verdict and a safer option.
Where the news comes from
News outlets, agency feeds and reports from people on the road. Reports of the same event are merged into one dot. Read more in Methodology and trust.
Our news reader (LabariMapBot)
LabariMapBot reads the public news feeds and pages of Nigerian news outlets to find incidents such as attacks, crashes, floods and fires. It names itself on every request, follows each website's robots.txt, asks one website at most once every few seconds, and never tries to get round a block. It was called NewsMapBot before November 2026, and a robots.txt rule for that name still applies to it. Each story on the map links back to the outlet that reported it.