The International Centre for Investigative Reporting was founded by Dayo Aiyetan, who resigned in May 2010 as senior associate editor and Abuja bureau chief of TELL Magazine, then Nigeria's leading political weekly, to build a newsroom devoted entirely to investigation. He had started out as a features writer at Sketch Newspapers in Ibadan, spent a decade at Concord, and taught investigative journalism in Lagos while the military had Concord closed. The Centre marked its tenth anniversary in June 2022 and is a registered non-profit governed by a board of trustees chaired by Oluwafisan Bankale, a former diplomat and newspaper editor, with academics from the Universities of Lagos and Maiduguri among its members. Aiyetan led it into the Global Investigative Journalism Network in January 2016 and was the first black African Knight-Wallace Fellow at Michigan in 2017. In May 2020 the ICIR established the FactCheckHub, an IFCN signatory it wholly owns and funds. Today, The ICIR is mainly focused on public contracting and corruption investigations, elections and INEC, the courts and human rights cases, security and conflict, health, education and climate, plus fact-checking of Nigerian political claims, from their base in Abuja, Nigeria. One interesting fact: its published corrections policy refuses to quietly unpublish. If a report is questioned, the Centre opens a fresh investigation rather than deleting the article, and removes it only if the whole thing proves fabricated.