Everything you need to know about the ARISE School of Governance, the Level 1 programme, and the Citizen Scorecard.
ARISE is a civic education programme designed to produce citizens who can evaluate public leadership with precision and evidence. Level 1 covers six sessions, ranging from understanding why nations fail, to reading a leader's character using the PHISA framework, to completing a full Citizen Scorecard on a sitting official.
Any Nigerian who wants to move beyond frustration and into informed, evidence-based civic engagement. No academic background is required. If you can read, follow an argument, and are willing to be honest with yourself, you belong here.
Session 1: "Why Nations Fail" is free and open to everyone without registration. Sessions 2–6 require a free account. There is no fee to enrol in Level 1.
Each session takes 25–32 minutes. The full Level 1 programme consisting of six sessions can be completed in under three hours. You can move at your own pace and return to any session at any time.
PHISA stands for Philanthropy, Humility, Integrity, Service, and Accountability. It is the ARISE behavioural framework for evaluating public leaders not by what they say, but by what their decisions and conduct reveal. You learn to apply it in Session 4.
The Citizen Scorecard is the practical instrument you receive in Session 6. It allows you to score any public official across all five PHISA dimensions with evidence, producing a total out of 100. Each dimension is scored 0–20, allowing fine-grained, evidence-based evaluation. It is designed to be used before elections, during a leader's tenure, and in community advocacy.
The Seven Laws are the ethical code — the non-negotiable conditions of principled governance. They tell you what every leader must do. PHISA is the evaluation instrument — the five-dimensional framework that tells you how to measure whether a leader is actually doing it. The Seven Laws are the standard. PHISA is how you apply the standard with evidence.
Yes. Completing all six sessions and the capstone reflection activity in Session 6 qualifies you as an ARISE Level 1 Graduate. A certificate is issued and can be shared or downloaded.
The ARISE Governance Doctrine is a cross-disciplinary framework rooted in philosophy, behavioural sciences, governance, international affairs, leadership doctrine, and civic education. It draws on foundational thinkers including Aristotle, Plato, Burns, Fukuyama, and North. The Doctrine is grounded in decades of clinical and leadership practice by a team led by a psychiatrist, governance scholar, and philosophical counsellor. The full doctrine is available as a published manuscript.