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FACT CHECK: The many social media lies of Lauretta Onochie, President Buhari’s aide
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
Pictures can mislead in several ways: when they contain false information, are doctored to misinform or are employed in a false context. As...
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FACT CHECK: Has Seyi Makinde reduced LAUTECH tuition fee? No
By Rebecca Akinremi.
THE claim about the reduction in tuition fee of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) has been made by two popular social...
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FACT CHECK: Are Shoprite supermarkets in Nigeria franchise outlets?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
FOLLOWING recent xenophobic attacks and violent reactions in Nigeria that have seen properties of companies believed to be owned by South Africans being damaged in protest, some...
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FACT CHECK: Photos of burnt animals in popular tweet aren’t from fires in Amazon
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
IN August 2019 many news outlets reported that the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, was burning at an alarming rate.
The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in...
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Fact-checking social media influencers who shared fake news during Nigerian general elections
Ahead of the 2019 Nigeria’s general elections, many Nigerians knowingly or ignorantly shared misinformation on the social media. Some of these purveyors of fake...
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FACT CHECK: Did Buhari budget N79m to have his haircut in 2019?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari plans to spend up to N79 million in 2019 just to regularly get his haircut, goes a claim that has...
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Video showing Lagos youths chanting “Ole” on Buhari is NOT TRUE
By Crosscheck Nigeria
THE claim in a video showing that President Muhammadu Buhari was booed and greeted with chants of ‘ole’, meaning thief in Yoruba language,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
