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Aerial view of Victoria Island, Lagos, the district where the EFCC's December 2024 raid took placePhoto · Ayorinde Ogundele / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

431 phones forfeited under a 2006 fraud law: EFCC's own releases on the Victoria Island 'HK' case give three phone counts, two raid dates and two charge sheets

A Federal High Court judge in Lagos made a final forfeiture order on 431 mobile phones on 29 September 2026. We read that release next to the seven earlier EFCC releases on the sam…

(A) Eight EFCC news releases downloaded from the commission's own database (efcc.gov.ng/backend/news/get…
Administration block of Egbin Thermal Power Station, Lagos StatePhoto · Egbin Thermal Power Station, Lagos State. Photo: Stellaolugbemi, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

NERC's revised order on DisCo revenue starts a 180-day clock from an "initial Order" its website does not carry

Order NERC/2026/062A takes effect on 4 September 2026 but applies to the August 2026 market cycle, and it dates a debt-reconciliation deadline from an earlier order that we could n…

(A) NERC Order NERC/2026/062A, Revised Order on Successor Distribution Companies' Utilisation of Earned …
Document: Cross River State’s Statement of Changes in Net Assets and Equity with note 34, recording a transitional adjustment of 9,354,491,048 in thousands of naira and no depreciation chargeDocument · Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, Office of the Auditor-General, printed page 42. Retrieved and read by Vero Record

Cross River added N9.35 trillion to its balance sheet on a valuation it performed itself, and its Auditor-General signed a clean opinion without mentioning it

The state's 2025 audited accounts recognise N9,354,491,048,000 of previously unrecognised legacy assets, valued using what the note calls in-house technical expertise, with no depr…

(A) Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, Office of the Auditor-General: Statement of Chang…
Document: the Auditor-General’s certificate on Cross River’s 2025 accounts, stating that the financial statements are reproduced in the report from page 22 to page 80Document · Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, audit certificate, printed page 2. Retrieved and read by Vero Record

Cross River's published 2025 audit stops in the middle of a sentence on page 65. Its certificate covers the accounts to page 80

The Auditor-General certifies that the consolidated financial statements are reproduced in his report from page 22 to page 80, and gives a special opinion on material he describes …

(A) Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, Office of the Auditor-General, 68 PDF pages, last…
Document: the Auditor-General’s table of Cross River statutory bodies, every row remarked External audit not conductedDocument · Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, Observation 1, printed pages 34-35. Retrieved and read by Vero Record

Not one of Cross River's 24 statutory bodies has been externally audited. Tinapa Resort has never filed accounts at all

The Auditor-General's 2025 report lists the state's parastatals with the periods for which they have submitted financial statements. Against all 24, the remark is identical: Extern…

(A) Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, Office of the Auditor-General, printed pp.34-35, …
Document: the long title and section 1 of the signed 2026 Appropriation Act, giving the total as N68,323,309,818,667 with its four component headsDocument · 2026 Appropriation Act as assented, printed page iii. Retrieved and read by Vero Record

Nigeria's signed 2026 Appropriation Act states its own total twice, and the two figures differ by N20 billion

On page ii of the Act the President signed, the Arrangement of Sections gives the appropriation as N68,303,309,818,667. On page iii, the long title and section 1 both give N68,323,…

(A) 2026 Appropriation Act as assented, front matter: printed p.ii, Arrangement of Sections item 1, 'Iss…
Document: section 3 of the Oyo State Appropriation Law 2026, stating Nine Hundred and Forty-Six Million in words against 945,477,812.85 in figuresDocument · Oyo State Appropriation Law 2026, Law No. 10, page 2. Retrieved and read by Vero Record

Oyo's Appropriation Law states two different capital figures in one sentence, under a certificate that it was compared word for word

Section 3 of the Oyo State Appropriation Law 2026 appropriates capital expenditure of Five Hundred and Four Billion, Nine Hundred and Forty-Six Million in words, and N504,945,477,8…

(A) Oyo State Appropriation Law 2026, Law No. 10, assented 22 December 2025: long title at p.1 giving ca…
Document: the last archived capture of firs.gov.ng, showing the transition notice the domain served before it stopped answering altogetherDocument · firs.gov.ng, Internet Archive capture of 6 May 2026, the last capture of the domain. Retrieved and read by Vero Record

Nigeria's tax authority took its whole document archive offline. Its e-invoicing service got a redirect; the circulars did not

firs.gov.ng no longer answers. Not a 404, not a redirect: the connection times out. With it went the official address of 291 archived documents, among them the signed Finance Act 2…

(A) Live probe of firs.gov.ng, www.firs.gov.ng and document URLs on 27 September 2026: DNS resolves to 6…
Document: INEC's replacement Resources and Document Hub as it stood on 27 September 2026, listing 330 items and no results categoryDocument · inecnigeria.org Resources and Document Hub, captured live by Vero Record on 27 September 2026

INEC's document archive stopped serving in the last week of August 2026. A file that worked on the 26th returns 404 today

A polling-unit collection report for the 2023 Kogi governorship election served continuously, with an unchanged content digest, at captures in 2023, 2024, 2025 and on 15 August 202…

(A) Internet Archive captures of the INEC Kogi 2023 governorship PU PVC collection figures PDF at 202311…
Document: the Commission’s published register of approved airtime and data lenders, with no approval dates and no reference numbersDocument · Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

FCCPC's Own Airtime-Lender Register Grew From Three Names to Nine While a Federal High Court Order Restrained the Regulations Behind It

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission told the public on 20 July 2026 that it suspended the DEON Regulations immediately on being served with a Federal High Co…

(A) Approvals of Airtime/Data Lenders, Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, fccpc.gov…