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Old video on ‘fake lockdown news alert’ circulates online

LESS than 24 hours after the announcement of COVID-19 restrictions across the country by the Nigerian Government, a video of  a former National Coordinator...

Claims of COVID-19 vaccine turning people into vampire is FALSE

CHRISTOPHER OGHENEBRORIE Okotie, a Nigerian televangelist and the pastor of the Household of God Church International Ministries in a viral video claimed that taking...

Did WHO disqualify Nigeria from global COVID-19 vaccine bid?

There are conversations online that the World Health Organisation (WHO) disqualified Nigeria from accessing the COVID-19 vaccine for her population. This followed media reports of...

Nigerian govt is not giving out N10,500 weekly COVID-19 support

ON Saturday, January 30, 2021, a viral claim circulating on WhatsApp says the Nigerian Government is giving out N10,500 weekly funds to Nigerians. The assistance,...

Did WHO say drinking palm oil can stop the spread of COVID-19?

A message shared on WhatsApp as seen on Friday, January 15, 2021 says experts have confirmed that consumption of palm oil can  help curb...

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...

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...

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...

FACT CHECK: Does Ghana have 200 cases of Coronavirus?

By Seun DUROJAIYE. A RECENT post shared on Twitter by a user who goes by the name Jeremy Weate, with over 13,000 followers on the micro-blogging...

FACT-CHECK: Presidential spokesperson exaggerates figure of people killed by Malaria in Nigeria

CLAIM: 822 people killed by malaria daily in Nigeria GARBA Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday expressed...

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