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Proof: INVESTIGATION: The fake professor leading a Nigerian university

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T06:02:01Z","headline":"INVESTIGATION: The fake professor leading a Nigerian university","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"premiumtimes","url":"https://www.premiumtimesng.com/investigationspecial-reports/914163-investigation-the-fake-professor-leading-a-nigerian-university.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

dec472848e25a4fc3d4382170ae7d13fc4ccee5a72b24a114ce1e97d70be0779

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969694, mined 2026-10-03 07:14 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 06:08 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 06:08 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-dec472848e25.json prints dec472848e25a4fc3d4382170ae7d13fc4ccee5a72b24a114ce1e97d70be0779. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-dec472848e25.json and headline-dec472848e25.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-dec472848e25.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, 5 min after it was first seen.