Reporting and documentary investigation from Nigeria.
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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 …
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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 wo…
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Photo · Oyo State Archives / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
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 …
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Photo · Source: News Central (photo credited to INEC)
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 202…
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Document · Companies House (UK), filings for Prized Consulting Ltd (06620501) and FSA Property Ltd (10816223); address and day of birth redacted by Vero Record
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 re…
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Photo · Source: The Guardian Nigeria (photo also credited to INEC by News Central)
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 rec…
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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 Con…
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Photo · Source: New Nigerian Newspapers
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 na…
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Photo · Photo published by Women News Today with its interview of Ada Elizabeth Fredrick Okwori, 14 September 2026, No open licence; press/handout photo used for identification, credited to the publishing outlet
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 …
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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 e…
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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 Sta…
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Photo · Roundabout in Gombe, March 2022. Photo: Gwanki, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 …
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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 A…
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Photo · INEC headquarters, Abuja. Photo: Kaizenify, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 pe…
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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, wh…
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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 ann…
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Photograph · Nosa Asemota, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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…
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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 neve…
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Photograph · Source: Reporters At Large
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-an…
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Photograph · Source: Daily Trust
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 …
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Photograph · Mohamed Nanabhay, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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,…
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Photograph · Source: OsunDefender
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.
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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.
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Document · INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", page 1, signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC
INEC lists him as the APP candidate. Beyond that single fact and the party's registration, Vero found no verifiable public record.
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Photograph · Source: Vanguard
INEC lists the party chairman as its 2027 candidate. His professional biography is detailed but party-sourced; his public-office record is not established.
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Photograph · Source: Chronicle.ng
A brand-new party, registered in February 2026, is fielding a US-based entrepreneur for president. What is documented is the party and the candidacy. The candidate's own name and e…
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Photograph · Source: Naija News
Sunday Chibuzo Okereke is on INEC's final list as the Labour Party's presidential candidate. He was nominated by the Nenadi Usman-led wing of a party still contesting its own leade…
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Peter Ada Agada is on INEC's final list as the Young Progressives Party's presidential candidate, a replacement nominee who defected after being disqualified from a Labour Party pr…
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Daniel Daberechukwu 'Dan' Nwanyanwu is on INEC's final list as the Zenith Labour Party's presidential candidate. Unlike most minor-party nominees, he has a long documented public r…
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Document · INEC, "Presidential and National Assembly Elections for Jan, 2027 - Presidential: Final List of Candidates", page 2, signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC
INEC's signed final list names eighteen presidential candidates. The National Democratic Party's is Ada Elizabeth Fredrick Okwori, who is also the party's national chairman, by cou…
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Okereke Nkem Esther appears at entry 12 of INEC's signed final list, with a PhD among the qualifications she filed. She is not the Okereke on the Labour Party ticket, and she is ab…
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Photograph · Tobi Tejumola, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
In suit FHC/ABJ/CS/1888/2026 before the Federal High Court in Abuja, Atiku Abubakar personally deposed a 25-paragraph affidavit alleging President Tinubu submitted a forged NYSC di…
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Photograph · Source: Vanguard
Onor asked a tribunal, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court to overturn Bassey Otu's win. Petition EPT/CR/Gov/2/2023 was struck out on 26 September 2023; the Supreme Court clo…
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Photograph · MoAli1010, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The SDP flagbearer's documented record is clear on how he became a candidate twice over. What is not cleanly documented from a primary INEC source is how many votes he actually won…
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Document · 2026 Appropriation Act, p.968
The enacted 2026 Appropriation Act names the National Forest Guard in exactly two places across 2,635 pages. The larger of the two is a single N283,850,000,000 Service Wide Vote li…
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Document · statehouse.gov.ng, Internet Archive captures of 19 and 21 December 2025
State House published its report of President Bola Tinubu's 19 December 2025 budget address to the National Assembly, then changed the words it placed inside quotation marks. The r…
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Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
As Cross River's House of Assembly completed a second upward review of the 2026 budget this month, state records show the figure being revised was itself never publicly reconciled …
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Photograph · Wikimedia Commons
In July 2026 the Budget Office told the House of Representatives that a N1.3bn line for the disputed "Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council" rested on genuine establi…
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