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Proof: Nigeria trails Africa’s top education spenders

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T06:01:28Z","headline":"Nigeria trails Africa’s top education spenders","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"businessday","url":"https://businessday.ng/education/article/nigeria-trails-africas-top-education-spenders/","v":1}

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SHA-256

f7ae20b1544ed8f6f9fb93e594ad1c34cad5dc9f2b1c2b72b36806a2bcff5177

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970142, mined 2026-10-06 06:20 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture this page: error:job-failed.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 06:27 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f7ae20b1544e.json prints f7ae20b1544ed8f6f9fb93e594ad1c34cad5dc9f2b1c2b72b36806a2bcff5177. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f7ae20b1544e.json and headline-f7ae20b1544e.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-f7ae20b1544e.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.