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Charly Boy shares fake quote attributed to Sanusi
NIGERIAN music artiste, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, has tweeted quote attributed to the former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, saying tribalism is the problem...
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2023 election: Fact-checking Peter Obi’s claims at Chatham House
THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, was on Monday, January 16, 2023 at the Chatham House in London, United Kingdom...
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INEC seeks Meta’s collaboration to tackle election disinformation
NIGERIA's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is in talks with the management of Meta (Facebook parent company) to combat the menace of election disinformation...
Economy
Fashola makes false claim that Tinubu is the first governor to raise infrastructure bond
NIGERIA'S Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was the first...
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#NigeriaDecides2023: 10 disinformation trends in election season
By Allwell Okpi
Nigeria’s 2023 elections are only weeks away. Voters are set to pick a president and members of the national assembly on 25...
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2023 polls: Seven ways to avoid election misinformation
THE impact of information disorder has begun to play out in the build-up to Nigeria's general election, holding in February and March this year....
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Image on branded bags of rice shows PDP chieftain not Peter Obi
A visual showing some packaged rice have surfaced online with a claim that it shows bags of rice branded with the People Democratic Party's...
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Video does not show Governor Wike leading campaign rally for Peter Obi
A video has circulated online with the claim that it shows moments Rivers State Governor Nyesome Wike was leading a campaign rally for the...
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Fact-checking Nasir El-Rufai’s claims about Nigerian military size, others at Chatham House
KADUNA State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, was among the surrogates who accompanied the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu,...
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No, Video does not show Reno Omokri campaigning in support of Tinubu at Chatham House
ON Monday, December 5, 2022, a viral video shared by The Nation Newspaper claimed that a former presidential aide to Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri,...
