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Proof: Vice Chancellor speaks on Anthony Kila’s fake professorship

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-04T21:52:05Z","headline":"Vice Chancellor speaks on Anthony Kila’s fake professorship","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"premiumtimes","url":"https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/914498-vice-chancellor-speaks-on-anthony-kilas-fake-professorship.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

85b3df0b4b12d5a942648f18e5c67e012fa6f462c34b0b7e3d68284cfda78fe4

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969913, mined 2026-10-04 22:44 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 21:58 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 21:59 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-85b3df0b4b12.json prints 85b3df0b4b12d5a942648f18e5c67e012fa6f462c34b0b7e3d68284cfda78fe4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-85b3df0b4b12.json and headline-85b3df0b4b12.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-85b3df0b4b12.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.