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Scandalising Buhari: Meme showing Julian Assange posing with UK newspaper is doctored

By Crosscheck Nigeria AN image of Julian Assange holding UK newspaper The Guardian has been doctored to look like the headline says that President Muhammadu Buhari...

FACT CHECK: Has Nigeria’s agricultural output really reduced or increased since PDP left power?

By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. ONE achievement President Muhammadu Buhari is always eager to flaunt wherever he speaks publicly is his administration’s efforts to improve the agricultural sector...

FACT CHECK: Has electricity generation worsened or improved since 2015? We verified

By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. NIGERIA’s top two political parties apparently disagree on how much electricity the country is currently generating compared to four years ago when the...

New acting Chief Justice, Tanko Muhammad did attend law school and was called to bar

By Crosscheck Nigeria. WIDELY shared videos and posts have claimed that the new acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad did not attend law...

FACT CHECK: Can a non-lawyer become Supreme Court Justice? And is Tanko a non-lawyer?

By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. DURING a protest held in Abuja on Monday by lawyers, one speech stood out. A legal practitioner, who has been identified as Okere Kingdom Nnamdi,...

FG and ASUU reps did not engage in a brawl

By Crosscheck Nigeria. THE negotiating committees of the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been in a fight, an online video...

FACT CHECK: Did North Korean president ask to recolonise Nigeria, Ghana?

By 'Kunle ADEBAJO. THE North Korean President Kim Jong Un boasted that he could transform Nigeria and Ghana into first world countries if he were allowed...

Has President Muhammadu Buhari died and been replaced by an impostor?

A NUMBER of high-profile public figures in Nigeria, including a former government minister, have claimed President Muhammadu Buhari is dead and is being imitated...

FACT CHECK: Oby Ezekwesili’s claim on out-of-school children is inaccurate

By Chikezie OMEJE. OBY Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) says that from the year 2000 till date, Nigeria has...

Are there 13.2 million out-of-school children in Nigeria as claimed by UBEC?

By Damilola OJETUNDE. LAST week, the Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Ahmed Boboyi, stated that the population of out-of-school children in Nigeria has risen from 10.5...

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