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Did Lagos teaching hospital admit 500 COVID-19 patients daily?
A VIRAL post on WhatsApp claimed that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) admits not less than 500 COVID-19 patients on a daily basis.
The...
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COVID-19: Nigeria ranks second out of 10 countries with highest confirmed cases in Africa
By Damilola OJETUNDE.
NIGERIA, with a 16.4 percent infection rate is the second most infected country of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) out of the 10 countries...
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Was Abba Kyari flown to UK for treatment and cremated?
By ‘Kunle Adebajo
On Sunday, April 19, two days after the death of Nigeria’s former Chief of Staff Abba Kyari was announced, a Twitter user...
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Viral video on rice distribution shared by Dino Melaye was shot in 2019
ON Thursday 16 April, Dino Melaye, a former senator shared a 30-second video on rice distribution to a large crowd in Nigeria, which has...
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Ayade was wrong saying social distancing not effective control against Covid-19
By YEKEEN Akinwale.
BEN Ayade, Governor of Cross River State and also a professor of Microbiology stirred controversy recently when he said the practice of social distancing might...
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FACT CHECK: Does 5G pose a health risk to the human body?
By Olayinka SHEHU.
THE media space in Nigeria has been inundated with claims that the 5G technology which is a fifth-generation mobile network is dangerous to...
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Okonjo Iweala posts 2019 photo to justify sharing of COVID 19 relief materials in Rwanda
By Damilola OJETUNDE.
A PHOTOGRAPH shared on Wednesday afternoon by former Nigerian Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo – Iweala to portray how the Rwandan government under...
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Fact-check: Is Covid-19 Airborne?
By UTHMAN Samad.
Since the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus across the world, there have been lot of misconceptions and misinformation about the Virus. Famous among...
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Fact-check: Is Governor El-Rufai out of COVID-19 self-isolation as claimed in a video? No
By Damilola OJETUNDE.
A video purportedly claiming that the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has gone out of the Coronavirus isolation and is enforcing...
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FACT-CHECK: Nnamdi Kanu claimed Nigeria has only 3 testing centres for COVID-19 but he was wrong
ON Saturday, 28 March, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) claimed that Nigeria current battles the COVID-19 pandemic with...
