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Nurudeen Akewushola

Nurudeen Akewushola is a fact-checker with FactCheckHub. He has authored several fact checks which have contributed to the fight against information disorder. You can reach him via nyahaya@icirnigeria.org and @NurudeenAkewus1 via Twitter.

Claim that INEC is conducting house-to-house voter’s registration in Northern Nigeria is FALSE

Elections
A VIRAL photo of a woman who appears to be undergoing biometric capturing in front of her residence has surfaced online with a claim...

Adobe releases new open-source tools to tackle visual misinformation

News
AMERICAN multinational computer software company, Adobe Inc., has released three new open-source tools intended to make it easier to verify the authenticity of visual...

Photo does NOT show Tinubu with his primary school classmates

Elections
AHEAD of Nigeria's 2023 general election, a group photo of some young school children has gone viral on social media with a claim that...

2023: Photoshopped picture of Peter Obi in Tinubu’s ‘cap’ circulates online

Politics
AHEAD of the 2023 general election, a viral image showing the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, wearing a cap popularly...

Six ways to identify ‘fake’ images on internet

Insights
Fake news peddlers often take photographs out of context. They digitally alter the photographs to promote an agenda or push an interest, thus manipulating...

False claim circulates that former Kano Emir, Sanusi endorsed Peter Obi in viral article

Elections
A VIRAL article attributed to the former Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, analysing the uniqueness of at least three presidential candidates contesting Nigeria's...

Photo of Peter Obi giving out money to traders is NOT related to Ekiti guber poll

Elections
A Twitter user with the handle, @iamneji tweeted a photo showing Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election,...

Ekiti Decides 2022: How true is the claim that ADP candidate stepped down for Segun Oni?

Elections
VIRAL social media posts have circulated that the governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Erelu Kemi Elebute-Halle, has stepped down for a...

Democracy Day speech: Buhari makes false claim about primary elections

Elections
IN his nationwide broadcast on Sunday, 12th of June 2022 in commemoration of the 2022 Democracy Day, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said recent primary elections...

Nigerian government rolls out policy to ‘sanitise’ social media platforms

News
THE National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has issued a Code of Practice for interactive computer service platforms like Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, Tik Tok...
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