Giving

“We no dey
give shishi”
gives a lot

“I just make money, save what I can, use what I need and give out the rest.” Said in 2020, and itemised below.

Peter Obi holding a presentation cheque with staff and students of a nursing college

₦1.15bn

in gifts to hospitals, nursing colleges, schools, universities and communities since 2020, each one named in the ledger below with its record.

The stinginess he is teased for is discipline. He does not hand money to people for effect, and what he gives goes to hospitals, schools and colleges - the institutions that pay a society back long after the cheque has cleared.

The ledger

September 2026
65 free surgeries for 65 children at Mother Mary Hospital, Isolo, Lagos, marking his 65th birthday source
in kind
August 2026
College of Nursing Sciences and College of Medical Sciences, Bishop Shanahan Hospital, Nsukka source
₦10m
August 2026
Faith Foundation Nursing College source
₦10m
July 2026
St Raphael's Hospital, Umueri source
₦10m
March 2026
Paul University, Awka source
₦30m
March 2026
Dominican University, Ibadan source
₦30m
March 2026
Peter University, Achina and Onneh source
₦30m
February 2026
St John Bosco Group of Schools, Obosi source
₦5m
January 2026
ADON College of Health Technology, Nnewi, and ADON Vocational and Technical Academy, Ozubulu source
₦15m
January 2026
Immaculata Girls' Model Secondary School, Nnewi source
₦5m
December 2025
College of Nursing Sciences, St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha source
₦15m
December 2025
NECO examination fees for 148 inmates of the Onitsha correctional centre source
in kind
November 2025
Dominican College, Abatete, a second gift after 25 million in July source
₦10m
September 2025
A church's acquisition of a specialist hospital source
₦10m
July 2025
Christ the King College, Onitsha, his old school source
₦50m
July 2025
Dominican College, Abatete source
₦25m
July 2025
Dental students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for re-accreditation source
₦15m
July 2025
St John Vianney Science College, Ukwulu source
₦10m
May 2025
Kubwa Anglican School and Kubwa Anglican Hospital, Abuja source
₦20m
May 2025
Godfrey Okoye University Teaching Hospital, Enugu source
₦20m
April 2025
St Luke Church Hospital, Ogbaru source
₦5m
February 2025
Kawo Almajiri School, Kaduna, bringing his gifts there to 20 million source
₦5m
January 2025
Paul University, Awka, bringing his gifts there to 50 million source
₦30m
December 2024
College of Nursing Sciences, Mbano source
₦10m
December 2024
Madonna College of Health source
₦10m
December 2024
Women Fellowship Pastoral Project source
₦10m
December 2024
Dominican University, Ibadan source
₦50m
December 2024
Womanhood College, Kaduna, and Saint Gerard Hospital source
₦10m
November 2024
Faithspiration Initiative source
₦8m
November 2024
Mary Agro Farms source
₦20m
November 2024
Peter University and the School of Nursing, Adazi-Nnukwu source
₦60m
November 2024
University on the Niger, Umunya, and the School of Nursing, Iyienu Mission Hospital, Ogidi source
₦60m
November 2024
Regina Caeli source
₦10m
October 2024
Grimard College of Nursing Sciences, Anyigba, with a coaster bus, after 10 million in July source
₦5m
October 2024
Shanahan University, Waterside School of Midwifery and Borromeo School of Nursing source
₦70m
October 2024
Holy Rosary Sisters, pledged over two years source
₦120m
October 2024
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital source
₦10m
September 2024
Borno flood relief source
₦50m
August 2024
Philomena Hospital source
₦10m
August 2024
School of Midwifery source
₦10m
July 2024
Grimard College of Nursing Sciences, Anyigba source
₦10m
June 2024
Holy Rosary School of Nursing and Midwifery, Emekuku source
₦10m
May 2024
St Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu source
₦10m
April 2024
St Gerald Hospital source
₦10m
April 2024
Madrasatul Hidayyatul Auladi Almajiri School source
₦10m
April 2024
Federation of Muslim Women's Associations in Nigeria source
₦10m
April 2024
College of Nursing Sciences, St Charles Borromeo Specialist Hospital source
₦10m
March 2024
De Marillac Centre for Street Children, Diobu, Port Harcourt source
₦5m
February 2024
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital source
₦20m
February 2024
Tungan Madaki primary health centre source
₦2m
January 2024
College of Nursing Sciences, Amichi source
₦10m
January 2024
Annunciation Specialist Hospital source
₦15m
January 2024
Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters, Immaculate Heart Specialist Hospital, Nkpor source
₦15m
December 2023
Two camps for displaced people in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi, Plateau source
₦15m
December 2023
The community of Obinofia Ndiagu, Ezeagu, Enugu source
₦10m
November 2023
Faith Foundation Mission Hospital, Nsukka source
₦20m
September 2023
College of Nursing Sciences, Anglican Diocese of Awka source
₦10m
September 2023
Faith Specialist Hospital, Anglican Diocese of Awka source
₦40m
May 2020
Anambra COVID-19 response, with other stakeholders source
₦40m

On donations

Peter Obi has no personal foundation. His gifts are made in his own name, usually in person, and reported by the press.

He does not operate a public donation channel through this site. Any channel for his political work is announced only on his verified account, @PeterObi. Anything else asking for money in his name is not his.

The 2023 campaign published its accounts in February 2024: 595,976,994 naira received from the public, 800 million from Obi himself, and how it was spent.

Peter Obi presenting a cheque to students in white hijabs outside a College of Nursing Sciences

Wide view of Peter Obi presenting a cheque to hospital staff in a courtyard lined with women in blue and white

Peter Obi presenting a cheque in a paved courtyard flanked by two rows of women in blue and white

The ledger

On donations

Sources