https://thenigeriafile.com/ An investigative news and accountability platform. Don't follow the promise. Follow the record. en Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://thenigeriafile.com/assets/web/og.jpghttps://thenigeriafile.com/ https://thenigeriafile.com/squandered-file https://thenigeriafile.com/squandered-file Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Peter Obi Between 2 and 6 November 2026 the man who ran beside Peter Obi in 2023, the chairman who handed him the ticket, and Vice-President Kashim Shettima each said he has thrown away what he had. One promises ‘more damaging things’. None has produced a document. What each one actually alleges, and what Obi’s side says back. https://thenigeriafile.com/voided-ticket-file https://thenigeriafile.com/voided-ticket-file Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar On 5 November 2026 Justice Peter Lifu set aside everything the ADC has done since July 2025, including the primary that made Atiku Abubakar its presidential candidate for 16 January 2027. He is not barred from running. For now he has no ticket to run on. He says he will appeal. https://thenigeriafile.com/articles/peter-obi-no-recycle-what-the-record-shows https://thenigeriafile.com/articles/peter-obi-no-recycle-what-the-record-shows Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Peter Obi What does 'Peter Obi no recycle' mean? We check the slogan against INEC, CAC and news records — see what's documented and what isn't. https://thenigeriafile.com/articles/atiku-abubakar-competence-record-what-the-documents-show https://thenigeriafile.com/articles/atiku-abubakar-competence-record-what-the-documents-show Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar Atiku Abubakar want to be president so bad but so not competent? See the documented record — FARA filings, court cases, run history — before you decide. https://thenigeriafile.com/articles/620-pages-nobody-read-fara-file https://thenigeriafile.com/articles/620-pages-nobody-read-fara-file Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Nigeria Files The '620 Pages Nobody Read' headline gets repeated everywhere. Here's what the filing documents, what's alleged, and where to open the record yourself. https://thenigeriafile.com/anambra-debt-file https://thenigeriafile.com/anambra-debt-file Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Peter Obi Peter Obi said he would stop campaigning if anyone proved he left debt. Anambra published loan records; his former SSG published the 2014 handover letter. What each document says, and why both can be true. https://thenigeriafile.com/forged-letter-file https://thenigeriafile.com/forged-letter-file Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Peter Obi A letter to the Obi of Onitsha carrying Peter Obi’s name and signature spread online during the Anambra debt fight. He says it is fabricated and the signature forged. Nobody has said who made it. https://thenigeriafile.com/unanswered-question-file https://thenigeriafile.com/unanswered-question-file Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar Atiku Abubakar says a Paris tribunal did not indict him, and on the reported text he is right. His statement does not say what the $500,000 sent to his then-wife in 2003 was for. https://thenigeriafile.com/mambilla-transfer-file https://thenigeriafile.com/mambilla-transfer-file Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar A businessman wired $500,000 to the U.S. account of Atiku Abubakar’s then-wife in January 2003, weeks after pitching for the Mambilla power project. A Paris tribunal rejected his explanation. It did not find that Atiku took a bribe. https://thenigeriafile.com/articles/von-batten-montague-york-atiku-fara-record https://thenigeriafile.com/articles/von-batten-montague-york-atiku-fara-record Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar Searching for Von Batten Montague York Atiku links? Here's what the DOJ FARA database actually shows — and what remains unverified. Check the record yourself. https://thenigeriafile.com/forty-million-file https://thenigeriafile.com/forty-million-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar A former APC vice chairman wants the EFCC and other law-enforcement agencies to open the oldest file in Nigerian politics. Atiku calls it a witch-hunt. Both men are telling you something true. https://thenigeriafile.com/senate-report-file https://thenigeriafile.com/senate-report-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar For sixteen years, one American document has sat at the centre of Nigerian politics. It says less than Atiku’s accusers claim. It says considerably more than his defenders admit. Here is what is actually on the pages. https://thenigeriafile.com/watches-file https://thenigeriafile.com/watches-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar According to the SEC, Siemens bought about $172,000 worth of wristwatches for Nigerian officials and recorded them under two initials: “P.” and “V.P.” Eighteen years later, nobody in Nigeria has ever been made to say who they were. https://thenigeriafile.com/fourteen-million-file https://thenigeriafile.com/fourteen-million-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar Nigerian coverage of this story still puts the money in Atiku’s university. It went to a university in Washington, D.C. — which took it for five years from offshore companies it knew nothing about and, by its own account, never asked why they were the ones paying. https://thenigeriafile.com/marine-float-file https://thenigeriafile.com/marine-float-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar In January 2023 a former aide released a recording he said was Atiku Abubakar explaining how to steal without touching the money. Atiku has not, in any record we could find, denied the voice. By Christmas, the aide had a directorship in President Tinubu’s government. https://thenigeriafile.com/why-this-month-file https://thenigeriafile.com/why-this-month-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar One petition and one press conference in twelve days, four months before the vote. The man who gave the press conference was appointed by the President to chair a federal board, and a published list of the President’s campaign council, released seventeen days earlier, includes his name. He said he was speaking only for himself. https://thenigeriafile.com/nothing-happens-file https://thenigeriafile.com/nothing-happens-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar Nigeria rarely acquits its powerful men and rarely convicts them. It does something else, and it has a mechanism, and the mechanism is visible in the big cases of the last twenty years. This is the last article in this series, and it is a prediction with its working shown. https://thenigeriafile.com/atiku-money-file https://thenigeriafile.com/atiku-money-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar Six matters on the public record about Atiku Abubakar's money, from the PTDF placements to the Dubai flat. Every sum quoted from its document, every matter labelled with its status. https://thenigeriafile.com/obi-offshore-file https://thenigeriafile.com/obi-offshore-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Peter Obi Peter Obi asks every candidate to defend their record. His includes a British Virgin Islands company set up while he was governor and an asset declaration that left it out. The record, with his answers beside it. https://thenigeriafile.com/kaduna-charge-file https://thenigeriafile.com/kaduna-charge-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Nasir El-Rufai Nasir El-Rufai has spent more than 200 days in custody facing three ICPC cases and a DSS wiretapping trial. What the charge sheets allege, what he says, and what has actually happened in court. https://thenigeriafile.com/lobbying-file https://thenigeriafile.com/lobbying-file Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Atiku Abubakar Atiku Abubakar’s $1.2 million Washington lobbying contract is on file with the U.S. Justice Department. It is legal, it is public, and it says plainly what he wants: a better name in Washington and a counterweight to the government’s own lobbyists.