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False claim about Nigeria’s inflation rate surfaces online

A verified X account, @Straightshuters, has posted a claim online that Nigeria's food inflation rate has dropped to 2 per cent from 34 per...

Hauwa Allahbura makes false claim about Ogun State’s 2024 budget

THE Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, trended on X this week as many Nigerian netizens called him out over the poor quality of...

UPDATED: Federal lawmaker amplifies false claim about Nigeria’s gold reserve

THE Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has amplified a claim that the last time Nigeria bought a gold bar was in...

Shehu Sani makes false claim about museums in Abuja

A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has claimed that Nigeria is the only country without a museum in its capital city. Senator Sani made the...

Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport has NOT been sold to China!

OLD footage of a news broadcast with the claim that a Ugandan international airport has been sold to China has resurfaced online, particularly on...

No, 72 per cent of Nigerians are not unemployed

ON December 18, 2023, during the daily live political show called 'The Polity' on KAFTAN TV, an analyst and legal practitioner Prince Ojoka stated...

Akpabio repeats false claim about Lagos IGR under Tinubu 

NIGERIA's Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has claimed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu grew Lagos state's monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) from N600 million to...

Phishing scams continue to circulate over Nigerian govt’s ₦8,000 palliative

A WhatsApp post is circulating online with a claim that the Nigerian government has directed members of the public to register on a particular...

Fact-checking Atiku’s claims on Nigeria’s poverty rate, others

A former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, on March 28, 2021  made several claims that the country is the world headquarters for extreme...

Claim that Anambra’s debt profile is over N200 billion is FALSE

A VIRAL post on Twitter claimed that Anambra State owes a combined debt of over N200 billion. The claim was made by a Twitter user...

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