https://verorecord.com/ Reporting and documentary investigation from Nigeria. Every claim carries the grade of the evidence behind it, and every report says what it does not establish. en-NG Free to read, quote and mirror. Attribution welcome, not required. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://verorecord.com/story/nigeria-s-own-opl-245-corruption-case-against-shell-and-eni- vero-record:story/nigeria-s-own-opl-245-corruption-case-against-shell-and-eni-.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000 The Tinubu administration has called its March 2026 settlement with Eni over the OPL 245 oil block historic. Defending it, Attorney-General Lateef Fagbemi said Nigeria had faced a potential liability of more than US$2 billion, and that proceedings in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy had not established any wrongdoing. Vero Record read what Eni and Shell told the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the arbitration record at the World Bank's ICSID, and Eni's written answers to shareholders. The only figure Eni published for its claim is $700 million in delay damages, alongside forced conversion of the licence and an unquantified reserve. Nigeria had counter-claims of its own in the arbitration, and the settlement waived all pending claims. Nigeria's 2017 corruption case against the companies ended in 2025 without a verdict, struck out because it had not been prosecuted. [Graded (A). Rests on: State House statements of 5, 8 and 25 March 2026 on the OPL 245 settlement (the last signed by Attorney-General Lateef Fagbemi and posted on 26 March); Eni S.p.A. and Shell plc annual reports on Form 20-F for 2022 to 2025 and Eni's half-year report on Form 6-K (6 August 2026), all filed with the US SEC; ICSID case page for ARB/20/41; Eni's written answers for its 6 May 2026 shareholders' meeting; the 29 April 2011 Block 245 Resolution Agreement as published by Eni.] https://verorecord.com/story/obi-says-he-left-his-uk-company-when-he-became-governor-its- vero-record:story/obi-says-he-left-his-uk-company-when-he-became-governor-its-.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 Peter Obi has said he "resigned immediately" from Next International (UK) Limited when he took office in Anambra in March 2006, and his campaign has said the firm was then being wound down. Vero Record downloaded and read the company's public filings in the UK register, 73 documents in all. They show accounts approved on 22 November 2007 "signed on their behalf by: Peter Obi, Director". They also show the company's books growing more than fivefold, to £11.1m, in his first three years in office, and his name on every shareholder list the company filed until 2016. No tribunal has ruled on any of this. [Graded (A). Rests on: Companies House, Next International (UK) Limited (03199858): abbreviated accounts for 2006, approved 22 November 2007, "signed on their behalf by: Peter Obi, Director"; annual return received 3 July 2006 naming Gregory Peter Onwubuasi Obi (born 19/07/1961) as sole director; form 288b giving a resignation date of 16 May 2008.] https://verorecord.com/story/uk-company-register-has-listed-boot-party-candidate-sunday-a vero-record:story/uk-company-register-has-listed-boot-party-candidate-sunday-a.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 In 2008 and again in 2016, filings for Sunday Adenuga's London-area consultancy gave his nationality as Nigerian. Every filing since June 2017 says British, and so does the live register today. Section 137 of the constitution disqualifies anyone who has "voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a country other than Nigeria" from the presidency, although lawyers disagree on how far that reaches. What Adenuga swore to INEC on the question has not been made public. [Graded (A). Rests on: Companies House (UK) filings for Prized Consulting Ltd 06620501: incorporation 16 June 2008 ("Nationality: NIGERIA"), annual return 16 June 2016 ("Nationality: NIGERIAN"), PSC01 received 4 July 2017 ("Nationality: BRITISH"); FSA Property Ltd 10816223 IN01 received 12 June 2017 ("Nationality: BRITISH"); live register 1 October 2026: British, resident England. Read against Constitution s.137(1)(a) and INEC Form EC9 questions 9 to 12.] https://verorecord.com/story/a-2025-profile-says-adewole-adebayo-challenged-the-cerpac-co vero-record:story/a-2025-profile-says-adewole-adebayo-challenged-the-cerpac-co.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 A profile of the SDP presidential candidate, published by The Guardian in September 2025, says he argued that the residence-permit contract between the Ministry of Interior and Continental Transfert Technique Limited was "exploitative, inflated" and a symptom of corruption. The signed 2008 arbitration award over that contract names "Mr Wole Adebayo" as the company's advocate against the Federal Government, and it awarded the company N29,660,166,207.48. In Washington that award became a $276,111,640.96 judgment against Nigeria. On 1 April 2025 a US court extended it for another twelve years after the company said it had still not collected. [Graded (A). Rests on: Final Award in Continental Transfert Technique Limited v. Federal Government of Nigeria, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of the Interior, 14 August 2008, paragraphs 26-27 (Adebayo as the claimant's advocate) and paragraph 139 (N29,660,166,207.48). US District Court for D.C., Memorandum Opinion and Order of 1 April 2025, Dkt. 157, reviving the $276,111,640.96 judgment for twelve years.] https://verorecord.com/story/nigeria-s-debt-office-now-lists-a-1-5bn-first-abu-dhabi-bank vero-record:story/nigeria-s-debt-office-now-lists-a-1-5bn-first-abu-dhabi-bank.html Public Money Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000 The Debt Management Office's June 2026 tables add a new line, "First Abu Dhabi Bank (Total Return Swap)", at $1,500.00 million. The March tables had no such line. A companion DMO table meant to split external debt between the states and the federal government leaves the federal row blank. [Graded (A). Rests on: DMO, Nigeria's External Debt Stock as at June 30, 2026 (document 6077), read alongside the March 31, 2026 stock (5999) and the total public debt summaries for June (6080) and March (6002)] https://verorecord.com/story/bauchi-s-audit-report-counts-n110-02-billion-of-foreign-loan vero-record:story/bauchi-s-audit-report-counts-n110-02-billion-of-foreign-loan.html Public Money Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 The Bauchi State Auditor-General's report on the 2025 accounts, signed in May 2026 and posted on the state website at the end of July, gives the state's 2025 capital receipts as N177.14 billion, N152.87 billion and N67.12 billion in different tables. The smallest figure leaves out N110.02 billion of external loans, and the report uses it to describe a 30.45 per cent fall from 2024. The same report puts Bauchi's loan stock at N441.69 billion and its total debt stock at N494.34 billion, and certifies the accounts as true and fair. [Graded (A). Rests on: Report of the State Auditor General on the Accounts of Bauchi State Government FY 2025 (156 pages; opinion signed with handwritten date 7/5/26; download page last modified 30 July 2026), bauchistate.gov.ng download_id=3859] https://verorecord.com/story/oyo-says-it-has-paid-retirees-over-n90bn-in-gratuities-under vero-record:story/oyo-says-it-has-paid-retirees-over-n90bn-in-gratuities-under.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 In September the Oyo State Government announced that it had paid more than N90bn in gratuities since Seyi Makinde took office in 2019. Makinde is now the Allied Peoples Movement's presidential candidate. Vero Record downloaded and read the state's own financial statements for 2019 to 2024. They record N16.74bn in gratuity paid from the Consolidated Revenue Fund over those six years. They also show the state's unpaid pension and gratuity bill rising from N24.83bn at the end of 2018 to N39.19bn at the end of 2024. In the two most recent sets of statements, that bill appears as a dash on the main balance sheet. [Graded (A). Rests on: Oyo State Government General Purpose Financial Statements. 2019 Statement No. 2: pension and gratuity due N24,825,840,839.49 at end-2018 and N30,075,100,160.93 at end-2019. 2024 statements: the face of Statement No. 2 and Note 19 show nil; the page 78 contingent liabilities schedule shows N39,188,422,471.90 for 2024 and N40,054,371,665.50 for 2023; page 64 shows gratuity paid of N4,500,000,000.00 against N11,240,000,000.00 budgeted.] https://verorecord.com/story/inec-lists-the-dla-presidential-candidate-as-35-two-uk-compa vero-record:story/inec-lists-the-dla-presidential-candidate-as-35-two-uk-compa.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000 INEC's signed final list gives Adebisi Moses Olusoji an age of 35, which is exactly the constitutional minimum for president. Two Companies House incorporation filings, made in 2022 and 2024 for companies under the "Thrillers" brand he has fronted in Nigeria, record a Nigerian director named Moses (Olusoji) Adebisi born in April 1994. On that date he would be 32 on polling day. Which record is right is not established, and the link between the filings and the candidate is our own inference, set out in full below. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", page 2, entry 9 (ADEBISI MOSES OLUSOJI, DLA, age 35, FSLC SSCE BSc), signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony; Companies House IN01 for THRILLERS HEALTHTECH CARE LTD (15712366), received 08/05/2024, director "DR MOSES OLUSOJI ADEBISI", DOB **/04/1994, Nigerian; Companies House IN01 for M&M THRILLERS HUMAN CARE LTD (14281299), received 07/08/2022, director "MR. MOSES ADEBISI", DOB **/04/1994, Nigerian, occupation President.] https://verorecord.com/story/abbas-bin-aliyu-s-website-says-he-holds-us-postgraduate-degr vero-record:story/abbas-bin-aliyu-s-website-says-he-holds-us-postgraduate-degr.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000 The ADP presidential candidate's official website says he earned "postgraduate degrees from Concordia College in the United States". INEC's signed final list of 2027 candidates records his qualifications as "FSLC SSCE BSC". A draft Wikipedia biography created by an account that declared a conflict of interest put the degrees at Concordia College, Alabama. US Department of Education records show that college reported no graduate offering in any year we checked and closed in June 2018. On 3 June 2026 the draft swapped both Concordia degrees for a Nigerian BSc dated 2022 to 2026. The candidate's website still carries the original sentence. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates" (entry 2, "FSLC SSCE BSC"); US Department of Education NCES IPEDS HD files for Concordia College Alabama, UNITID 101073; aliyubinabbas.com home page; Wikipedia Draft:Aliyu Bin Abbas revisions 1349364328 (17 April 2026) and 1357569673 (3 June 2026).] https://verorecord.com/story/inec-said-in-2025-it-could-not-list-omo-aje-as-action-allian vero-record:story/inec-said-in-2025-it-could-not-list-omo-aje-as-action-allian.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Rufai Adekunle Omo-Aje is the Action Alliance's presidential candidate, nominated by a party he chairs. On 9 October 2025 INEC signed a statement saying it "cannot list Omoaje's name as the Chairman" while a Court of Appeal judgment against him was "still subsisting", and that his own appeal was at the Supreme Court. INEC's register now shows him as national chairman, marked "(By Court Order)". We found no published Supreme Court decision in that appeal, and INEC has not said publicly which order it is obeying. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC press release, "INEC NOT IN BREACH OF THE JUDGEMENT OF THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT, OSHOGBO", signed Sam Olumekun mni, Thursday 9 October 2025 (posted on INEC's X account 10 October 2025), set against INEC's register page for the Action Alliance at inecnigeria.org/parties/action-alliance-aa (captured 1 October 2026) and INEC's signed 2027 Presidential Final List of Candidates, page 1.] https://verorecord.com/story/okwori-proposes-40-per-cent-women-on-every-ndp-list-her-part vero-record:story/okwori-proposes-40-per-cent-women-on-every-ndp-list-her-part.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Two days after INEC published the final 2027 candidate lists, the National Democratic Party's presidential candidate and national chairman said the party was proposing at least 40 per cent women on all its executive and candidate lists. INEC's own records put the NDP at 16.3 per cent on the National Assembly ballot, with one woman among the five national officers the commission lists. That is still a higher share than most parties. [Graded (B). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Senatorial District: Final List of Candidates" and "- House of Representatives: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC (PDFs created 11 September 2026), downloaded from inecnigeria.org/documents/press/ on 1 October 2026. NDP rows: Senate 32 candidates, 3 recorded F; House 60 candidates, 12 recorded F. INEC party register page for the National Democratic Party: five national officers, one woman. INEC presidential final list, entry 11. Electoral Act 2026, sections 84, 85 and 87. The pledge comes from Women News Today, 14 September 2026 (press, B).] https://verorecord.com/story/atiku-s-sworn-inec-form-dates-his-master-s-degree-to-2020-an vero-record:story/atiku-s-sworn-inec-form-dates-his-master-s-degree-to-2020-an.html Politics Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000 On 1 August 2026 INEC published the nomination papers of the ADC presidential candidate. On a form he swore to before a commissioner for oaths in June, Atiku Abubakar gives three education dates: 1954, 1961 and 2020. The Anglia Ruskin University certificate published with the form reads "November 2021". His own campaign website said in 2014 that he entered secondary school in 1960 and finished in 1965. None of this shows that he lacks the constitutional minimum qualification, and nothing we saw suggests any certificate is forged. What it shows is a sworn form whose dates do not match the candidate's own documents. [Graded (B). Rests on: Atiku Abubakar's Form EC9 for the 2027 presidential election (INEC-stamped, published for scrutiny on 1 August 2026 under s.29(3) Electoral Act 2026): education table "F.S.L.C. 1954 / WASC 1961 / MA (Int. Relations) 2020", with the Anglia Ruskin University MA certificate dated "November 2021" and a Part E sworn declaration, alongside INEC's signed Final List of Candidates (entry 5).] https://verorecord.com/story/in-2018-the-state-house-said-buhari-had-written-to-the-natio vero-record:story/in-2018-the-state-house-said-buhari-had-written-to-the-natio.html Politics Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 The Presidency published three statements about President Tinubu's leave in Europe, from his departure on 30 August to his flight home on 29 September. We read all three in the State House's own records. None says a written declaration went to the Senate President and the Speaker, and none names an Acting President. The same website still carries a 2018 statement saying Buhari's letter had been sent. [Graded (A). Rests on: State House (statehouse.gov.ng) press statements of 30 August, 21 September and 29 September 2026 on President Tinubu's leave, compared with the State House statement of 1 August 2018 announcing a Section 145(1) letter for President Buhari, and the text of Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).] https://verorecord.com/story/cbn-s-rate-reset-rests-on-inflation-figures-that-match-nbs-s vero-record:story/cbn-s-rate-reset-rests-on-inflation-figures-that-match-nbs-s.html Public Money Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000 We checked every price figure in Monetary Policy Communique No. 164 against the National Bureau of Statistics' August, July, June and May 2026 CPI reports and spreadsheets. The numbers are copied correctly. The fuller NBS series shows a slower, more uneven decline than the communique describes, and the 3.5-point cut changes the corridor more at the top than at the bottom. [Graded (A). Rests on: CBN Monetary Policy Communique No. 164 (CBN/MPC/COM/164/307), 22 September 2026, 5 pages; NBS CPI reports and Excel workbooks for May, June, July and August 2026 (microdata.nigerianstat.gov.ng catalog 154)] https://verorecord.com/story/budget-office-s-latest-report-restates-2025-first-half-defic vero-record:story/budget-office-s-latest-report-restates-2025-first-half-defic.html Public Money Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 The Budget Office of the Federation's third-quarter 2025 implementation report, the newest one its website lists, reprints the first two quarters of 2025 with different numbers from the ones it published for those same quarters. The earlier reports are still online and do not match. The newer report does not explain the changes, and it gives two different figures for its own third-quarter deficit. [Graded (A). Rests on: Budget Office of the Federation, 2025 Third Quarter Budget Implementation Report, Table 3.9 (page 28), compared with Table 3.9 of the 2025 Second Quarter report (page 32)] https://verorecord.com/story/before-the-world-bank-s-500m-top-up-for-acresal-its-own-repo vero-record:story/before-the-world-bank-s-500m-top-up-for-acresal-its-own-repo.html Public Money Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 The first of the three $500 million World Bank credits reported on 28 September goes to the board on 29 October. It would add money to the northern land-restoration project ACReSAL. In June the Bank's own progress report for that project cut its main land figure from 799,868.76 hectares to 548,908, after a mid-term review tightened how land is counted. [Graded (A). Rests on: World Bank Project Information Document PIDIAF0342, ACReSAL (P175237) Additional Financing Request 1, appraisal stage, dated 25 Sep 2026; World Bank Implementation Status and Results Report for ACReSAL (P175237), 30 Jun 2026. We downloaded and read both.] https://verorecord.com/story/431-phones-forfeited-under-a-2006-fraud-law-efcc-s-own-relea vero-record:story/431-phones-forfeited-under-a-2006-fraud-law-efcc-s-own-relea.html Politics Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000 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 same December 2024 raid. The commission's own published record gives 4,091, 1,596 and 431 as phone counts, 10 and 19 December as raid dates, and 11 and seven as the number of counts in the charge. None of that changes who the court convicted, but it leaves open what happened to the rest of the seized property. [Graded (A). Rests on: Eight EFCC news releases downloaded from the commission's own database (efcc.gov.ng/backend/news/get.php, ids 12936, 13049, 13274, 13310, 13595, 13830, 14097, 14309) and read in full, plus the release index covering about 2,500 releases back to July 2023.] https://verorecord.com/story/the-maiduguri-t-shirt-charge-sheet-names-printing-not-drugs vero-record:story/the-maiduguri-t-shirt-charge-sheet-names-printing-not-drugs.html Politics Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 The First Information Report filed against five men in Maiduguri accuses them of printing "Tinubu Must Go" T-shirts to breach the peace. The drugs the Borno police later described do not appear on it. [Graded (A). Rests on: First Information Report (Judicial Form 1), dated 29/09/2026, filed at Chief Magistrate Court I, Maiduguri, court file MG/2367/26 (handwritten; suffix uncertain), photograph published by Sahara Reporters and downloaded and read by us.] https://verorecord.com/story/gombe-pdp-s-rerun-put-pantami-back-on-top-inec-s-own-registe vero-record:story/gombe-pdp-s-rerun-put-pantami-back-on-top-inec-s-own-registe.html Politics Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 On 29 September the Peoples Democratic Party in Gombe re-ran its governorship primary on a court order, and Isa Ali Pantami won it, according to reported results. INEC's own press releases say every party's membership register was already filed by 8 May 2026. Pantami's lawyers told the court he resigned from the APC on 19 May. The judgment that reportedly upheld his PDP membership has not been published, and we could not find how it deals with that gap. [Graded (B). Rests on: INEC press releases of 27 March 2026 (register deadline 10 May, 21-day rule under s.77(4)) and 15 May 2026 (all 22 parties' registers in by 8 May), both signed by Mohammed Kudu Haruna.] https://verorecord.com/story/four-state-assemblies-have-backed-state-police-in-press-repo vero-record:story/four-state-assemblies-have-backed-state-police-in-press-repo.html Politics Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Section 9 of the Constitution asks the states for one thing: a resolution of the House of Assembly, from at least two-thirds of the 36 states. In the two weeks since the National Assembly sent the state police alteration bill out, Osun, Edo, Rivers and Oyo have been reported as approving it. So far the only public account of how each House voted comes from speakers' announcements, aides' statements and newspaper reports. None of the four has published votes and proceedings, and the reports describe the approvals in different procedural terms. [Graded (B). Rests on: Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (rev. 2011), section 9, via constituteproject.org PDF, page 10] https://verorecord.com/story/inec-s-own-2027-register-deadline-fell-one-day-short-of-its- vero-record:story/inec-s-own-2027-register-deadline-fell-one-day-short-of-its-.html Politics Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 In March 2026 the commission moved the deadline for party membership registers to 10 May and said primaries could run until 30 May. Counted forward, a register filed on the last permitted day could not lawfully have supported a primary inside that window. The commission later said every party complied, but it has not published the date on which each register arrived. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC press release, 'Re: Revised Timetable and Schedule of Activities for 2027 General Election', signed Mohammed Kudu Haruna, 27 March 2026; INEC press release, 'Submission of Political Parties' Membership Registers', signed Mohammed Kudu Haruna, 15 May 2026.] https://verorecord.com/story/eight-house-bills-share-the-name-of-the-state-police-amendme vero-record:story/eight-house-bills-share-the-name-of-the-state-police-amendme.html Politics Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000 The Constitution (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026 went to the 36 state assemblies on 16 September. The House's own 2026 Order Papers list eight private bills with that short title, while the bill actually voted on carries a different title and number, HB. 2797. The National Assembly has still published no Votes and Proceedings that would show what each chamber approved. [Graded (A). Rests on: National Assembly document index, nass.gov.ng/documents/votes_track and /documents/order_paper_track (queried 29 September 2026); House of Representatives Order Papers of 22, 28 and 29 April, 10 June, and 8, 9, 21 and 23 July 2026] https://verorecord.com/story/lagos-says-it-has-carried-out-69-of-its-2026-budget-its-own- vero-record:story/lagos-says-it-has-carried-out-69-of-its-2026-budget-its-own-.html Politics Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 The Lagos State Government's second-quarter 2026 budget implementation report gives two readings of the same half-year. Its summary table puts spending at 34.6% of the approved annual budget. Its conclusions say 69%. [Graded (A). Rests on: Lagos State Government, Budget Implementation Report Quarter Q2 2026 (dated July 27, 2026), Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget, lagosmepb.org/wp-content/uploads/Y2026-LASG-Q2-BIR.pdf, pages 3-8 (sections 1.B-1.E and Table 1).] https://verorecord.com/story/states-foreign-debt-grew-42-in-a-year-and-the-march-table-di vero-record:story/states-foreign-debt-grew-42-in-a-year-and-the-march-table-di.html Public Money Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 The Debt Management Office's June 30, 2026 table puts Nigeria's public debt at N166,788,480.19 million, and its parts add up. In dollars, the external debt owed by the states and the FCT went from US$4,811.92 million to US$6,832.80 million in twelve months. The March 2026 table, published in between, does not split external debt by who owes it. [Graded (A). Rests on: Debt Management Office, 'Nigeria's Total Public Debt as at June 30, 2026' (PDF, dmo.gov.ng item 6080), compared with the DMO tables for March 31, 2026, December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2025.] https://verorecord.com/story/the-government-s-own-account-of-august-s-faac-sharing-gives- vero-record:story/the-government-s-own-account-of-august-s-faac-sharing-gives-.html Public Money Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000 The Federal Ministry of Information published the September 2026 FAAC release under a headline of N2.338 trillion and an opening sentence of N2.58 trillion. Adding up its own figures shows which numbers hold and which do not. [Graded (A). Rests on: fmino.gov.ng press release, "FG, States And LGCs Share N2.338 Trillion From N3.685 Trillion Gross Revenue For August 2026", signed Efe Ovuakporie, 17 September 2026.] https://verorecord.com/story/nnpc-s-own-monthly-reports-show-july-profit-at-n279-billion- vero-record:story/nnpc-s-own-monthly-reports-show-july-profit-at-n279-billion-.html Public Money Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 The same day NNPC Limited announced a N7.2 trillion profit for 2025, its most recent monthly summary, for July 2026, showed profit, revenue and oil output all lower than in June. The summary also puts statutory payments for January to July 2026 below the figure its July 2025 summary gave for January to June 2025. [Graded (A). Rests on: NNPC Limited Monthly Report Summaries, January to July 2026, and July 2025, downloaded from nnpcgroup.com's document store] https://verorecord.com/story/37-reported-deaths-in-nscdc-custody-in-minna-what-the-govern vero-record:story/37-reported-deaths-in-nscdc-custody-in-minna-what-the-govern.html Politics Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A presidential statement of 18 September and a ministerial order of 19 September set up a ten-member committee, name 20 suspended officers plus the state commandant, and give the inquiry two weeks. Neither document says how the detainees died, and the Corps' own website has published nothing on it. [Graded (A). Rests on: State House, Abuja: 'FG constitutes independent committee to investigate reported deaths of 37 people in NSCDC custody, releases full list of suspended officers', signed Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, 19 September 2026] https://verorecord.com/story/the-cash-transfer-office-answered-the-auditor-general-in-sep vero-record:story/the-cash-transfer-office-answered-the-auditor-general-in-sep.html Politics Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 The National Cash Transfer Office's public rebuttal deals with one of the eight queries in the Auditor-General's 2024 non-compliance report. It says evidence reached the auditors. The report says the evidence was never presented, and it records no management reply to any query. [Graded (A). Rests on: Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation, 2024 Annual Report on Non-compliance (Volume I), National Cash Transfer Office, Abuja, pp. 85-94 (PDF pages 121-130); PDF creation date 25 July 2026.] https://verorecord.com/story/nerc-s-revised-order-on-disco-revenue-starts-a-180-day-clock vero-record:story/nerc-s-revised-order-on-disco-revenue-starts-a-180-day-clock.html Politics Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 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 not find on the Commission's orders page, live or archived. [Graded (A). Rests on: NERC Order NERC/2026/062A, Revised Order on Successor Distribution Companies' Utilisation of Earned Non Admin Operating Expenditure, signed 4 September 2026] https://verorecord.com/story/the-appropriation-act-nigeria-signed-authorises-n16-73-trill vero-record:story/the-appropriation-act-nigeria-signed-authorises-n16-73-trill.html Public Money Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Vero opened both files. The Budget Office's published 2026 Appropriation Bill details total N51,592,233,171,028. The Act the President signed authorises N68,323,309,818,667. The two documents reconcile head for head, to the naira, which is what makes the N16,731,076,647,639 gap measurable. It also contains 8,076 project lines carrying a code prefix the Bill uses not once. [Graded (A). Rests on: 2026 Appropriation Bill (Details), Budget Office of the Federation, 2,790 pages: SUMMARY BY MDAs grand total 51,592,233,171,028 (printed p.2) and SUMMARY BY FUNDS (printed p.3). 2026 Appropriation Act as assented, 2,635 pages: section 1 and long title, printed p.iii, total 68,323,309,818,667 with its four component heads. Project-code counts taken from a full extraction of the ERGP code column in both files.] https://verorecord.com/story/agriculture-s-capital-budget-grew-by-n2-13-trillion-between- vero-record:story/agriculture-s-capital-budget-grew-by-n2-13-trillion-between-.html Public Money Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000 In the Budget Office's published Bill details, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has a capital allocation of N1,300,452,463,830. In the signed Act it has N3,427,147,237,462. Personnel and overhead are identical in both, to the last digit. The ministry also acquires 3,423 project lines that the Bill does not contain. [Graded (A). Rests on: 2026 Appropriation Bill (Details), Budget Office of the Federation, SUMMARY BY MDAs, printed p.2, row 21: capital 1,300,452,463,830, total 1,447,973,604,421. 2026 Appropriation Act as assented, printed p.483: capital 3,427,147,237,462, total 3,574,668,378,053, with personnel 136,264,346,724 and overhead 11,256,793,867 identical in both.] https://verorecord.com/story/labour-and-employment-s-capital-budget-quadrupled-between-th vero-record:story/labour-and-employment-s-capital-budget-quadrupled-between-th.html Public Money Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 The Budget Office's published Bill details give the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment a capital allocation of N149,791,949,431. The signed Act gives it N643,362,264,672. Personnel and overhead are unchanged to the naira. Of the N493.6bn increase, N474.5bn sits in 1,403 individually numbered project lines that the Bill does not contain. [Graded (A). Rests on: 2026 Appropriation Bill (Details), SUMMARY BY MDAs, printed p.2, row 24: capital 149,791,949,431. 2026 Appropriation Act as assented, printed p.975: capital 643,362,264,672. Personnel 28,847,711,401 and overhead 4,993,292,158 identical in both. 1,403 ERGP2027-prefixed lines under MDA 0227001001 in the Act totalling 474,472,315,242.] https://verorecord.com/story/oyo-state-s-2026-budget-reports-its-2024-spending-as-exactly vero-record:story/oyo-state-s-2026-budget-reports-its-2024-spending-as-exactly.html Public Money Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Every Nigerian budget book carries a column for what was actually spent and collected in a past year. In Oyo State's approved 2026 budget, the column headed 2024 Full Year Actuals is a copy of the column headed 2024 Revised Budget, line for line and kobo for kobo, across 162 pages. It is a published claim that every agency hit its target exactly. [Graded (A). Rests on: Oyo State 2026 Approved Budget, 214 pages, published by the Oyo State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning. Column test run across all parseable detail rows by word x-position: 7,483 of 7,489 rows identical between the 2024 Revised Budget and 2024 Full Year Actuals columns; sample rows read visually on PDF pages 147 (revenue) and 90 (expenditure). Comparison figures from the Oyo State Budget Performance Report for 2025, Fourth Quarter, printed p.8.] https://verorecord.com/story/oyo-budgeted-n322-54bn-of-borrowing-for-2026-and-can-name-le vero-record:story/oyo-budgeted-n322-54bn-of-borrowing-for-2026-and-can-name-le.html Public Money Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000 The state's Citizens' Budget carries a page of internal consistency checks. Two of them fail. The document reports total loans of N322,540,000,000 against domestic and foreign loans of N247,253,230,662, leaving a difference of N75,286,769,338 with no source named, and a grants line short by N599,230,662. Both figures are shaded red in the original. [Graded (A). Rests on: Oyo State Citizens' Budget 2026, page 15, Cross Checks section: total loans 322,540,000,000 against domestic 224,000,000,000 and foreign 23,253,230,662, difference 75,286,769,338; aid and grants difference 599,230,662. Loan sources listed at page 9. Governor's speech figures at page 4; enacted figures at page 15.] https://verorecord.com/story/cross-river-added-n9-35-trillion-to-its-balance-sheet-on-a-v vero-record:story/cross-river-added-n9-35-trillion-to-its-balance-sheet-on-a-v.html Politics Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 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 depreciation charged. The state's entire expenditure that year was about N205bn. The Auditor-General certified a true and fair view and raised no observation on it. [Graded (A). Rests on: Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, Office of the Auditor-General: Statement of Changes in Net Assets/Equity and note 34 (printed p.42) recording a transitional adjustment of 9,354,491,048 in N'000 and a cumulative increase of N9,354,491,048,000 with no depreciation charged; Statement No. 2 (printed p.37) PPE 14,858,069,984 against 5,376,901,223 and total assets 15,791,737,345 against 6,284,434,099; Statement No. 3 (printed p.39) net cash used in investing activities 195,865,808; expenditure and revenue at printed p.7; unqualified audit certificate at printed pp.2-4; narrative on non-current assets at printed p.7.] https://verorecord.com/story/cross-river-s-published-2025-audit-stops-in-the-middle-of-a- vero-record:story/cross-river-s-published-2025-audit-stops-in-the-middle-of-a-.html Politics Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 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 as being on page 81. The published document ends at printed page 65, part-way through note 17, on the words Mini Tractors Held for Distribution. Notes 18 to 33 are certified and absent, including the note that would explain the state's N9.35 trillion asset recognition. [Graded (A). Rests on: Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, Office of the Auditor-General, 68 PDF pages, last printed page 65: audit certificate at printed p.2 stating the statements are reproduced 'page 22 to page 80'; Special Opinion at printed p.4 referring to material 'as described in page 81'; table of contents at printed p.iii listing notes at 44 and supplementary notes at 75; document ends mid-note 17 at printed p.65. Compared against the 2024 report, which reproduces notes 1-32 and supplementary notes to printed p.82.] https://verorecord.com/story/not-one-of-cross-river-s-24-statutory-bodies-has-been-extern vero-record:story/not-one-of-cross-river-s-24-statutory-bodies-has-been-extern.html Politics Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 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: External audit not conducted. Obudu Ranch Resort last submitted for 2013. Tinapa Resort's row is blank in both columns, because the state cannot name a year for which it has ever filed. [Graded (A). Rests on: Cross River State 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, Office of the Auditor-General, printed pp.34-35, 'Boards and Corporation / Audit of Parastatals / Observation 1: Non-Submission of Financial Statements by Statutory Bodies': 24 rows, each remarked 'External audit not conducted'; Obudu Ranch Resort submitted 2013, outstanding 2014-2025; Tinapa Resort blank in both columns; with the Auditor-General's stated Risk and Recommendation.] https://verorecord.com/story/nigeria-s-signed-2026-appropriation-act-states-its-own-total vero-record:story/nigeria-s-signed-2026-appropriation-act-states-its-own-total.html Politics Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 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 N68,323,309,818,667. The Act sets out its four component heads in the same sentence, and they add up to the second figure exactly. The first understates the appropriation by twenty billion naira. [Graded (A). Rests on: 2026 Appropriation Act as assented, front matter: printed p.ii, Arrangement of Sections item 1, 'Issue and appropriation of N68,303,309,818,667'; printed p.iii, long title and section 1, 'the total sum of N68,323,309,818,667' with component heads of 4,799,628,911,806 (Statutory Transfers), 15,809,361,631,657 (Debt Service), 15,427,257,802,407 (Recurrent Non-Debt) and 32,287,061,472,797 (Capital), which sum to 68,323,309,818,667.] https://verorecord.com/story/oyo-s-appropriation-law-states-two-different-capital-figures vero-record:story/oyo-s-appropriation-law-states-two-different-capital-figures.html Politics Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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 N504,945,477,812.85 in figures on the same line. The two differ by one million naira. Immediately beneath, the Clerk of the House certifies that the printed impression has been carefully compared with the Law as passed and found to be a true and correct copy. [Graded (A). Rests on: Oyo State Appropriation Law 2026, Law No. 10, assented 22 December 2025: long title at p.1 giving capital as N504,946,477,812.85; section 3 at p.2 stating 'Five Hundred and Four Billion, Nine Hundred and Forty-Six Million ... (N504,945,477,812.85)'; marginal note to section 3 giving N504,946,477,812.85; Clerk's certificate of true and correct printed copy on the same page, signed by the Clerk and the Speaker.] https://verorecord.com/story/nigeria-s-tax-authority-took-its-whole-document-archive-offl vero-record:story/nigeria-s-tax-authority-took-its-whole-document-archive-offl.html Politics Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 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 2020, the transfer pricing regulations and their gazette, and the public notices taxpayers and courts cite by URL. The same agency's e-invoicing subdomain was given a clean redirect to its successor on the same transition. [Graded (A). Rests on: Live probe of firs.gov.ng, www.firs.gov.ng and document URLs on 27 September 2026: DNS resolves to 66.22.96.124, no response on ports 80 or 443, independent proxy returns Cloudflare 522. Same probe: taxpromax.firs.gov.ng 200, tcc.firs.gov.ng 200, einvoice.firs.gov.ng 200 redirecting to einvoice.nrs.gov.ng, www.nrs.gov.ng 200. Internet Archive captures: real content to 20250901133053, transition notice at 20260305085803 and 20260506081736 (last). Archived inventory of 291 unique PDFs on the domain since 2020.] https://verorecord.com/story/inec-s-document-archive-stopped-serving-in-the-last-week-of- vero-record:story/inec-s-document-archive-stopped-serving-in-the-last-week-of-.html Politics Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000 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 2026. It now returns 404. Across the commission's whole upload tree, successful captures stop between 26 and 31 August 2026. We hold an inventory of 3,371 archived documents from it; a live sample of ninety returned 404 ninety times. [Graded (A). Rests on: Internet Archive captures of the INEC Kogi 2023 governorship PU PVC collection figures PDF at 20231117192409, 20240713022255, 20241213102723, 20250615021150 and 20260815131949, all carrying content digest DEY7UW5HMNUBGXILEJZKLVBN2TAPZO4E; the same URL returns HTTP 404 on 27 September 2026. Day-by-day capture status across the /wp-content/ tree: 36 successful on 2026-08-25, 6 on 2026-08-26, none from 2026-08-31 onward. Archived inventory of 3,371 unique PDFs; live sample of 90 returned 404 on all 90. INEC Resources and Document Hub, live 27 September 2026, listing 330 items across nine categories.] https://verorecord.com/story/the-presidency-says-this-council-does-not-exist-the-budget-t vero-record:story/the-presidency-says-this-council-does-not-exist-the-budget-t.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Vero opened the signed 2026 Appropriation Act and searched all 2,635 pages. The Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council - a body the Presidency has publicly called fake and non-existent - appears on three of them, under its own MDA code, 0111062001. The same reading corrects a figure widely reported, including in our own earlier account: the N1,302,978,784 is not the council’s allocation. It is a single vote it shares with another council. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 2: "TINUBU BOLA AHMED", APC, age 74. 2026 Appropriation Act as assented, retrieved and read in full by Vero (2,635 pages; SHA-256 a8b8eab21df60be5a8fde35fd866f5f467a22acd8f5f255b1b52eb8b41d36f88). Printed page 1 of the Presidency schedule (PDF page 32): MDA code 0111062001, "PRESIDENTIAL ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL/PRESIDENTIALL FOREIGN INTERVENTION PROMOTION COUNCIL", total allocation 1,302,978,784. Detail schedule at printed pages 33 and 34 (PDF pages 64 and 65).] https://verorecord.com/story/a-court-ordered-peter-obi-s-party-struck-from-the-register-i vero-record:story/a-court-ordered-peter-obi-s-party-struck-from-the-register-i.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000 The Federal High Court in Abuja ordered INEC to cancel the registration of the Nigeria Democratic Congress and remove it from the register of political parties, finding it was never validly registered. Months earlier the NDC had ratified Peter Obi as its 2027 presidential candidate, and after the ruling INEC restored the party's access to its nomination portal. The records point in opposite directions. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, Report of the 2023 General Election, Table 9.6, printed p.163 (PDF p.202): Labour Party zonal scores 1,415,557 / 315,107 / 350,182 / 1,960,589 / 1,210,675 / 849,423. Debt Management Office, state external debt as at 31 December 2013: Anambra $30,323,574.40; DMO total domestic debt of the 36 states for 2013 (revised): Anambra N3,025,797,046.67. INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 3: "OBI PETER GREGORY", NDC, age 65. Federal High Court (Abuja) judgment per Justice Mohammed Umar ordering INEC to cancel NDC registration; INEC registration of NDC dated 5 Feb 2026; INEC portal reinstatement reporting.] https://verorecord.com/story/six-months-after-signing-an-n892bn-oyo-budget-makinde-s-gove vero-record:story/six-months-after-signing-an-n892bn-oyo-budget-makinde-s-gove.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 Governor Seyi Makinde signed Oyo State's 2026 budget of N892.09bn into law on 23 December 2025. By 1 July 2026 the Oyo State House of Assembly had approved an N330bn realignment-and-supplementary package - N120bn from reallocated existing lines plus N210bn in new spending - pushing the 2026 budget to roughly N1.102tn, a rise of about 37% inside the fiscal year. [Graded (A). Rests on: Oyo State Citizens’ Budget 2026: total budget N891,985,074,480.79; capital N502,846,477,812.85 (56.37%); recurrent N389,138,596,667.94; infrastructure N210,025,443,802.16 (23.55%). Oyo State Budget Performance Report for 2025 Fourth Quarter (Accountant-General / Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning): supplementary provision N299,887,400,000.00; IGR approved N143,185,910,404.08 against N102,523,417,328.16 realised, 63.5%; recurrent revenue performance 82.6%; FAAC N365,365,046,816.27. INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 2: "MAKINDE OLUSEYI ABIODUN", APM, age 58. Oyo State 2026 Appropriation Law (signed 23 Dec 2025, N892.09bn) and the Oyo State House of Assembly approval (~1 July 2026) of a N330bn realignment/supplementary raising the total to ~N1.102tn.] https://verorecord.com/story/cross-river-still-carries-donald-duke-s-tinapa-resort-at-n58 vero-record:story/cross-river-still-carries-donald-duke-s-tinapa-resort-at-n58.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Vero downloaded Cross River State’s audited financial statements and its approved 2026 budget. The state values the resort its former governor built at N58,700,000,000 - unchanged for two years, with no revaluation gain - and has approved N8bn to renovate its hotel and N500m to build a water park there. Nineteen years on, Tinapa is still a line in the state’s books and still a line in its budget. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 3: "DUKE DONALD", PRP, age 64. Cross River State audited financial statements 2024 (Office of the Auditor-General), Note 25 at printed p.66: TINAPA BRL 58,700,000 and TINAPA Studios 73,000, in N’000, unchanged from 2023, closing balance 126,943,287. Audited financial statements 2023, observation 7.1: "Ranch, Tourism, Tinapa Project" contractual liability N3,718,845,149.46. Cross River State 2026 Approved Budget: "Renovation and Remodelling of the Tinapa Lakeside Hotel" N8,000,000,000.00 approved for 2026 (N5,000,000,000.00 revised 2025); "Construction of Water Park at Tinapa Business and Leisure Resort" N500,000,000.00 for 2026.] https://verorecord.com/story/the-ecowas-court-s-own-journal-records-two-cases-over-sowore vero-record:story/the-ecowas-court-s-own-journal-records-two-cases-over-sowore.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Vero read the Official Journal of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice. It registers an application over Omoyele Sowore’s arrest on 6 August 2025, seeking $100,000,000 in damages, and a second over a Department of State Services letter to X Corp demanding his account be deactivated. Both are registered filings, not judgments - and in the first, Sowore is not the person suing. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 1: "SOWORE OMOYELE", AAC, age 55. ECOWAS Official Journal (Supplement) Vol. 75 (CCJ), Community Court of Justice, retrieved and read by Vero. Printed pp.122-124: SUIT NO ECW/CCJ/APP/39/25, notice of registration, filed and registered 7 August 2025, applicant Comrade Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho suing in a representative capacity on behalf of Omoyele Sowore, respondent the Federal Republic of Nigeria, damages sought $100,000,000. Printed pp.154-155: SUIT NO ECW/CCJ/APP/49/25, registered 6 October 2025, concerning a DSS letter to X Corp.] https://verorecord.com/story/what-is-on-record-for-action-alliance-s-2027-candidate-rufai vero-record:story/what-is-on-record-for-action-alliance-s-2027-candidate-rufai.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 INEC lists the Ede businessman and AA national chairman as the party's presidential candidate. Beyond the candidacy and a stated platform, the personal record is thin. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 1: "RUFAI ADEKUNLE OMO-AJE", AA, age 71. INEC register of political parties (inecnigeria.org/parties) confirms Action Alliance as a registered party; INEC's final 2027 candidate list names Omo-Aje as AA candidate with running mate Shehu Hussaini.] https://verorecord.com/story/action-democratic-party-s-2027-pick-what-the-record-shows-ab vero-record:story/action-democratic-party-s-2027-pick-what-the-record-shows-ab.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A former Atiku aide is INEC's listed ADP candidate. The party's registration and history are documented; his own record is largely a self- and party-description. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 1: "ABBAS-BIN ALIYU", ADP, age 44. INEC register (inecnigeria.org/parties) lists the Action Democratic Party (ADP) as registered; INEC's reported final 2027 list names Abbas-Bin Aliyu as ADP candidate with running mate Chinazam Ike. ADP's INEC registration dates to June 2017.] https://verorecord.com/story/action-peoples-party-s-yusuf-kabiru-is-on-the-2027-ballot-al vero-record:story/action-peoples-party-s-yusuf-kabiru-is-on-the-2027-ballot-al.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 INEC lists him as the APP candidate. Beyond that single fact and the party's registration, Vero found no verifiable public record. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 1: "YUSUF KABIRU", APP, age 54. INEC register (inecnigeria.org/parties) lists Action Peoples Party (APP) as registered; INEC's reported final 2027 list names Yusuf Kabiru as APP candidate with running mate Peace Egobia Ofordile.] https://verorecord.com/story/boot-party-s-sunday-adenuga-a-technocrat-cv-told-mostly-by-t vero-record:story/boot-party-s-sunday-adenuga-a-technocrat-cv-told-mostly-by-t.html Politics Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 INEC lists the party chairman as its 2027 candidate. His professional biography is detailed but party-sourced; his public-office record is not established. [Graded (A). Rests on: INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC; published at inecnigeria.org and downloaded by Vero on 26 September 2026, page 2: "ADENUGA SUNDAY", BP, age 52. INEC register (inecnigeria.org/parties) lists Boot Party (BP) as registered; INEC's reported final 2027 list names Sunday Adenuga as BP candidate with running mate Usman Turaki Mustapha.]