Peoples Gazette was launched in 2020 by Samuel Ogundipe, an investigative journalist who was arrested and detained by the Nigerian government for reporting undesirable stories about the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

[9][10] On 26 January 2021, the newspaper had its website blocked across all telecommunication networks in Nigeria; this blockage, Peoples Gazette stated, was based on a directive from the Nigerian government as a result of an unfavourable publication it wrote indicting the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Gambari, of delegating his son to take over the duty of his office even without security clearance to do so.

[15] The Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders condemned the clampdown on Peoples Gazette describing it as an obstruction of citizens' right to information and press freedom.

The report generated a nationwide discussion on attempts by some individuals within the Nigerian Presidency to entrap Bola Tinubu in other to ensure he doesn't contest for the 2023 presidential election.

[43][44][45] The platform also reported bank records of payment made by Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote to Hadiza Bala Usman a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, co-founder of the campaign for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping Bring Back Our Girls movement and erstwhile managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority during the 2015 presidential election.

[49][50] In another report, The Gazette detailed how an ally of President Muhammadu Buhari Ismaila Isa Funtua received via his company Bulet International Nigeria Limited the sum of 840million naira from the Federal Inland Revenue Service in four transactions between March and June 2019.

Source protection is a critical condition for press freedom, and Nigerian authorities should stop trying to force journalists to disclose their sources.” [52] In a similar reaction, Reporters Without Borders described the action of the NIA as extremely dangerous.

The police officers demanded to see the managing editor and a reporter on a story published by the newspaper on June 23 chronicling how the nation's anti-graft agency recovered cash and luxury items from the home of the former chief of army staff Tukur Yusuf Buratai.