ON WEDNESDAY, the 10th of August 2022, a popular Nigerian blog, Instablog9ja at about 2:06 pm posted on its social media pages (Instagram and Twitter), the identities, including names and photos, of the five arrested suspected killers of victims of …
A PHOTO showing a mammoth crowd of people has circulated online this week and is being attributed to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) mega rally held in Osogbo, the capital of Osun state. Candidates, political stakeholders and supporters of the …
A claim circulating on social media attributed to the Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, says the investment made by Peter Obi, ex-governor of the state, at $20 million is now worth $100 million. The claim, first retrieved on June 20, …
A VIRAL claim on the internet says Segun Oni, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the ongoing Ekiti governorship election, holding today, has withdrawn from the gubernatorial race. The claim alleged that the former party chieftain of …
KOGI State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has claimed that there has been no strike action in the state-owned tertiary institutions since he became the governor in 2016. He made the claim on the 7th of June 2022 while canvassing for delegates’ …
AN OLD image of a brown paper envelope customized with the logo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and showing some wads of dollar notes in it has resurfaced online during the just-concluded presidential primaries of the party. At the …
A VIRAL video circulating on WhatsApp has claimed that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu state, Dr. Peter Mbah Ndubuisi, has been killed after winning the party’s primary election. Dr. Ndubuisi, a former Commissioner of …
Telegram has put up measures to curb misinformation in Brazil ahead of the country’s presidential election in October 2022. In a report by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), the cross-platform instant messaging app says it will create a channel of …
In a post which was retrieved from Facebook on the 5th of March 2022, former president of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a presidential aspirant under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), …
A CLAIM that the United States of America is currently recruiting foreigners and Africans into its Army has circulated widely on social media in Nigeria. The claim, retrieved from a WhatsApp group, stated that prospective applicants should follow an embedded …