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Democracy Day speech: Buhari’s GDP growth rate contradicts figures from CBN, IMF, others

Economy
DELIVERING the customary annual speech on the occasion of Nigeria’s Democracy Day celebration on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari said the country’s Gross Domestic Product...

Ngige’s claim about surplus doctors in Nigeria is FALSE

Health
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. NIGERIA’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said there is nothing worrisome about the population of doctors in the country as there are...

FACT CHECK: Is Adesina right about Boko Haram being dislodged from Sambisa Forest?

Security
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. FEMI Adesina, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, on Saturday published an article about the administration, titled ‘PMB’s Second Term: Looking...

FACT CHECK: Did Atiku hire US lobbyists to get him recognised as president or was the story fabricated?

Politics
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. ON Tuesday, the Centre for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group based in Washington DC, reported that presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP),...

FACT CHECK: Did Buhari budget N79m to have his haircut in 2019?

General
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari plans to spend up to N79 million in 2019 just to regularly get his haircut, goes a claim that has...

Report of Nigeria topping Africa contradicts FG’s claims on local rice production

Government Policy
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. IN JULY 2014, Akinwumi Adesina, then minister of agriculture and rural development, predicted that Nigeria would become Africa’s largest rice exporter ‘in five...

Video showing Saraki being booed after election is FALSE

Elections
A VIDEO claiming that Bukola Saraki was booed by some people after the February 23 presidential election is not true. The video, which was shared...

Man caught with PVCs is ex-officio member of PDP in Mpkat Enin LGA of Akwa Ibom state

Politics
By Crosscheck Nigeria. A picture of men allegedly caught with PVCs in Akwa Ibom state is making the rounds on social media, with supporters of both...

Buhari did not vote for Atiku

Elections
By Crosscheck Nigeria. A Facebook page, Nigeria’s Peoples Parliament posted a digitally altered photo of President Muhammadu Buhari raising his ballot paper which showed he had...

Video showing Lagos youths chanting “Ole” on Buhari is NOT TRUE

General
By Crosscheck Nigeria THE claim in a video showing that President Muhammadu Buhari was booed and greeted with chants of ‘ole’, meaning thief in Yoruba language,...
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