The Dossiers
A dossier is not a news story. It is a numbered evidentiary file, built only from records a reader can retrieve, in which every proposition carries the grade of the evidence behind it, every correction stays on the page where the original claim stood, and the list of documents we could not obtain is printed alongside the ones we did.
PublishedFifty-eight supplements
Tinubu
What was investigated, what was settled without admission, and what was never decided by any court. Assembled from United States federal court records, Nigerian corporate and electoral registers, United Kingdom company filings, national audit reports and the archived versions of an official biography.
Readable in the page, 5.5 MB
183 graded claims
180 (A) · 66 (B) · 35 (C)
In preparationOpened
No findings published
Obi
A narrow file on one question: an offshore incorporation reported by the Pandora Papers consortium in October 2021, and the asset declarations filed with the Code of Conduct Bureau that would show whether it was declared. The Constitution grants every citizen the right to inspect those declarations. No statute has ever been enacted to make that right usable.
Two record worlds: an offshore register and a Nigerian declaration regime
Publishes when the declarations are obtained, refused in writing, or the refusal itself is documented
No claim is made here about whether anything was concealed
In preparationOpened
No findings published
Atiku
A United States Senate subcommittee published a case history in February 2010 describing transfers into American accounts. A civil complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2008 made a separate allegation. Both documents are public, both were denied, and no charge was ever brought in the United States. This file examines what those two documents establish and, at greater length, what they do not.
Two public United States documents plus the responses on the record
Publishes when the underlying exhibits are located in a public docket, or when their absence is documented
No charge was brought. Nothing here asserts otherwise
What makes a dossier different from a report
(A) Primary record
A court file, an official register, a government filing, a statute, an audited account. Something we retrieved, and for which the exact query or docket number is printed so you can retrieve it too.
(B) Attributed statement
Someone identifiable said it, and that they said it is documented. Whether it is true is a separate question, and a dossier does not answer it under this grade.
(C) Inference
Our reasoning from the record above, including arithmetic we performed ourselves. Always printed with its inputs, and never dressed as anything else.
The four rules that decide what gets in
A finding must be retrievable by a stranger. It must be new, or newly connected. It must survive being argued against by someone trying to break it. And it must say plainly what it does not establish. A finding that fails any one of the four is dropped, however good it reads.
Why these three
Because a file on one of them alone would be a campaign document. The 2023 presidential election was contested principally by these three men, and each has a body of public record attached to him that has never been assembled in one place with its evidentiary weight marked.
We support none of them. Anyone with a documented record is eligible, and the order in which the files open is decided by which records are retrievable, not by who is currently in office.
What we will not do to get a document
We obtain no record whose acquisition would create an attributable transaction: no purchased filings, no certified extracts, no searches requested in our own name.
Where such a document would settle a question, we name it, name its custodian, print its price, and leave the question open with the inference stated. A reader who wants it closed can close it, and will owe us nothing for doing so.