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Dr Vero
Investigations editor of Vero Record. Dr Vero writes and edits every report: 93 so far, 80 of them graded (A), meaning the finding rests on a primary record we retrieved and read.
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How Dr Vero works
Dr Vero is Nigerian and has spent many years on one kind of work: reading the public record that others leave unread, and connecting names, dates and documents across courts, registers, budgets and archives. Every claim carries a grade: (A) a primary record we retrieved, (B) a statement by someone identifiable, (C) our own inference. Every report also states what its documents do not establish. The full method is on How we grade evidence.
Dr Vero is a working name. The newsroom does not publish the names of its staff: in Nigeria, journalists who report on public money are arrested and held over their work. Judge the work by its documents, which are printed with every report. Corrections are published in place and dated on the corrections page; tips and right of reply go through the contact form.
Every report
October 2026
- The 2026 budget gives the National Teachers Institute N16.21bn for projects. N3.5bn of it is for health centres and medical equipment; N911.31m is for training teachers alone
- Campaigns for 2027 opened legally on 19 August and 9 September: the Electoral Act's 150-day rule puts APC governors' planned outings inside the window
- NNPC's N11.2tn claim on the Federation is a year-end balance, and its total claims fell from N17.51tn after N8.67tn of energy security costs were netted off
- INEC's own figures put 2027 voter registration at 10,399,288 in all, not 9.3 million young people; the 10.18 million total uses a November count for phase one
- INEC's 3,763-row Osun table backs its signed count of 1,906,390 collected voter cards to within two cards; unpublished text on its website carries a lower figure
- All of SERAP's N94.4bn sits in the Auditor-General's audit of the gas fund; its largest item, N38.61bn of 2024 flare penalties, the fund puts at 43 kobo
- NEITI's audit put royalties and gas flare penalties owed to the upstream regulator at US$6.05 billion and N65.9 billion; that is the record the Senate is questioning
- Ekiti's FAAC share was minus N6.69bn in January after N21.21bn of deductions. Its half-year report books N96.77bn from FAAC, the federal tables N56.37bn net
- EFCC's N1.23 trillion is a 33-month total, not a half-year one, and its 1,370 convictions for early 2026 trail the 1,928 its own list records for the same months of 2024
- Tinubu's Independence Day economic claims hold on official data: first-half growth of 4.16 per cent, reserves highest since 2008; the inflation fall crosses a change of index
- NERC puts the N37.06bn fall in the electricity subsidy down to lower demand; its own totals put the volume effect at about N8.33bn
- The debt office's new guarantees sheet lists N7.84tn, and its largest line is N2.74tn of bonds pledged for the First Abu Dhabi swap. Its dollar lines use N1,376, not one of the CBN's published rates for 30 June
- INEC set primaries for four restored Delta and Kogi State Assembly seats to start seven days after announcing them. The Electoral Act requires parties to give it 21 days' notice
- Ten shares for N5,250: the Dangote refinery prospectus opens the 700,000-barrel refinery to Nigerian savers, and fills small applications first
- Debt costs took 60.2 per cent of federal revenue in 2024, as Lokpobiri said; Budget Office tables put 2022 at 72.9 per cent and early 2023 at 131 per cent, not 97
- NERC's second-quarter report raises its first-quarter meter count by 69,490, and the missing meters surface in the June totals for Ibadan and Kano
- INEC's final lists name 4,863 National Assembly candidates. The widely reported 4,408 matches them only once the ADC's 454 are taken out
- INEC says all 22 parties filed their registers on time. The Supreme Court says the register penalty falls on parties, not on candidates personally
- Tinubu's office reported him promising no budget rollovers from April 2026. The 2025 budget now runs to 31 December, the day the 2026 Act expires
- NNPC's audited-results release calls 1.77 million barrels a day its 2025 average. Its own December report called that figure the year's peak
- Tinubu says pensions were paid "on time and in full" since 2023. His pension agency paid 13 months of a 2024 increase as arrears, the last in April 2026
- Ondo added N244.97bn to its 2026 budget in September. Its own documents put the cash it carried into the year anywhere from N159.20bn to N277.32bn
- The judgment behind the police recall of retired senior officers never uses the word "reinstate". Published counts of who it covers run from 190 to 475
- Nigeria's own OPL 245 corruption case against Shell and Eni was struck out in 2025 for want of diligent prosecution, Shell's SEC filings show
- Obi says he left his UK company when he became governor. Its 2006 accounts were signed off in his name in November 2007
- Atiku's sworn INEC form dates his master's degree to 2020 and his school certificate to 1961. The certificate filed with it says 2021, his own life story 1965
- Oyo says it has paid retirees over N90bn in gratuities under Makinde. Its own accounts record N16.74bn to the end of 2024, while the amount owed rose by N14.36bn
- INEC lists the DLA presidential candidate as 35. Two UK company filings for a director of the same name give a 1994 birth date
- UK company register has listed BOOT Party candidate Sunday Adenuga as British since 2017, after earlier filings said Nigerian
- Abbas-Bin Aliyu's website says he holds US postgraduate degrees. INEC's final candidate list records a BSc
- A 2025 profile says Adewole Adebayo challenged the CERPAC contract. The 2008 arbitration award names him as the contractor's advocate against Nigeria
- INEC said in 2025 it could not list Omo-Aje as Action Alliance chairman. Its register now lists him "By Court Order"
- Okwori proposes 40 per cent women on every NDP list. Her party's National Assembly lists have 15 women among 92 candidates
- Nigeria's debt office now lists a $1.5bn First Abu Dhabi Bank swap as external debt. It accounts for 57 per cent of the quarter's rise
- Bauchi's audit report counts N110.02 billion of foreign loans in one table and drops them from the next, turning a rise in capital receipts into a 30 per cent fall
September 2026
- Gombe PDP's rerun put Pantami back on top. INEC's own register dates came before he left the APC
- In 2018 the State House said Buhari had written to the National Assembly under Section 145. Its three statements on Tinubu's 2026 leave do not mention a letter
- Four state assemblies have backed state police in press reports, and none has published its own record of the vote that Vero Record could find
- CBN's rate reset rests on inflation figures that match NBS's own files. The communique does not mention that food inflation rose in June and July
- Budget Office's latest report restates 2025 first-half deficits N1.64 trillion higher and first-half capital releases from N428.18bn to N1.63bn
- Before the World Bank's $500m top-up for ACReSAL, its own report cut the project's main land figure by 250,960 hectares
- 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
- The Maiduguri T-shirt charge sheet names printing, not drugs
- INEC's own 2027 register deadline fell one day short of its 21-day rule
- Eight House bills share the name of the state police amendment now before the states. The public record does not say which one was sent
- Lagos says it has carried out 69% of its 2026 budget. Its own table says 34.6%
- States' foreign debt grew 42% in a year, and the March table didn't show it
- The government's own account of August's FAAC sharing gives two totals and two VAT figures, and its VAT deductions exceed the VAT collected
- NNPC's own monthly reports show July profit at N279 billion, about half of June's
- 37 reported deaths in NSCDC custody in Minna. What the government has put on paper so far is two press releases
- The cash transfer office answered the Auditor-General in September. The audit report records "No response" to all eight of its queries
- NERC's revised order on DisCo revenue starts a 180-day clock from an "initial Order" its website does not carry
- The Appropriation Act Nigeria signed authorises N16.73 trillion more than the budget details the Budget Office published
- Agriculture's capital budget grew by N2.13 trillion between the Bill and the Act while its personnel and overhead did not move by one naira
- Labour and Employment's capital budget quadrupled between the Bill and the Act, and 96 per cent of the increase can be named line by line
- Oyo State's 2026 budget reports its 2024 spending as exactly equal to its 2024 budget, on 7,483 lines out of 7,489
- Oyo budgeted N322.54bn of borrowing for 2026 and can name lenders for N247.25bn of it. Its own budget document prints the gap in red
- 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
- Cross River's published 2025 audit stops in the middle of a sentence on page 65. Its certificate covers the accounts to page 80
- Not one of Cross River's 24 statutory bodies has been externally audited. Tinapa Resort has never filed accounts at all
- Nigeria's signed 2026 Appropriation Act states its own total twice, and the two figures differ by N20 billion
- Oyo's Appropriation Law states two different capital figures in one sentence, under a certificate that it was compared word for word
- Nigeria's tax authority took its whole document archive offline. Its e-invoicing service got a redirect; the circulars did not
- INEC's document archive stopped serving in the last week of August 2026. A file that worked on the 26th returns 404 today
- The Presidency says this council does not exist. The budget Tinubu signed gives it a code and names it three times
- Atiku personally swore a 25-paragraph affidavit to bar Tinubu from 2027; INEC has moved to throw it out
- A court ordered Peter Obi's party struck from the register; INEC reopened its candidate portal anyway
- Six months after signing an N892bn Oyo budget, Makinde's government moved to lift it to N1.10tn
- Three courts, one verdict: how Sandy Onor's challenge to Cross River's 2023 governorship result failed at every level
- Cross River still carries Donald Duke’s Tinapa resort at N58.7bn, and is budgeting N8.5bn more for it in 2026
- The ECOWAS Court’s own journal records two cases over Sowore’s arrest and the order to delete his account
- Adewole Adebayo's paper trail is a candidacy, not a vote count, and the 2023 national number is still an open record
- What is on record for Action Alliance's 2027 candidate, Rufai Omo-Aje
- Action Democratic Party's 2027 pick: what the record shows about Abbas-Bin Aliyu
- Action Peoples Party's Yusuf Kabiru is on the 2027 ballot; almost nothing else is documented
- BOOT Party's Sunday Adenuga: a technocrat CV, told mostly by the party itself
- The DLA's presidential candidate is on the INEC list, and the public record about him disagrees with itself
- A Labour Party faction has a 2027 presidential candidate, and which faction matters as much as the candidate
- The YPP's 2027 candidate is a substitute nominee who came from the Labour Party
- The ZLP's 2027 candidate is the party's own founder, a veteran of Nigeria's earlier Labour Party
- Two women are on Nigeria's 2027 presidential ballot. Most published lists of the field leave both of them out
- The National Rescue Movement's candidate holds a doctorate, is 43, and is the second woman the 2027 candidate lists lose
- The Court of Appeal's Ruling on Magu's EFCC Tenure Was Two Days Old and Still Unpublished When a Former Senate President Called It Vindication
- Cross River's 2026 Budget Grew N181 Billion Between Presentation and Signature, With No Public Reconciliation
- Akwa Ibom's N1.17 Trillion Capital Budget Has One Line in Its Own Implementation Report
- Two Official Accounts of How a Disputed Council Entered Nigeria's 2026 Budget Have Not Been Reconciled
- The Auditor-General's 2024 Report Is Cited at N1.34 Trillion in Federal Lapses. The Itemised Figures Published So Far Add to About N257bn
- The Budget Office Now Reports Nigeria's 2025 Amended Budget as N48.32 Trillion, N6.67 Trillion Below the Figure It Reported Three Months Earlier
- Nigeria's National Forest Guard Appears Twice in the 2026 Appropriation Act, and Its Larger Line Is Shared With the Presidential Air Fleet
- The Presidency Replaced One Quoted Sentence in Its Account of Tinubu's 2026 Budget Address With Three New Ones, Within 28 Hours of Publishing It
- FCCPC's Own Airtime-Lender Register Grew From Three Names to Nine While a Federal High Court Order Restrained the Regulations Behind It
- Nigeria's Oil-Marketer Debt to Its Petroleum Regulator Carries Three Different Totals Inside the Same Set of Official Records
- Nigeria's Open Contracting Portal Now Carries a N1,999,836,220 COVID-19 Line for University College Hospital Ibadan That Was Not on the Same Report in June 2023