An image of shrouded bodies has been posted multiple times on social media with the claim that it shows casualties from the Lekki toll gate incident which took place on October 20, 2020. A Facebook user, Emmanuel Rowland, posted the …
SEVERAL fake and misleading information have found its way to the cyberspace during and following the aftermath of the EndSARS protest that rocked Nigeria. One of such claims is a post shared with the FactCheckHub on October 24, 2020. It …
A photo of a man carrying a woman wrapped in a blood stained Nigeria flag has been shared repeatedly on social media as one of the victims of Lekki Toll Gate incident. A twitter user @seefinish tweeted the picture with …
A video that went viral on Saturday, October 17, 2020, claimed that women in Katsina State have joined the #EndSARS protest to demand for the resignation of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s president. The video has been shared multiple times online. …
A post which states that in 1959, 69 African-American boys, aged 13 to 17 were padlocked in their dormitory for the night at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, Arkansas and a fire started which led to the death …
“Never forget, the budget for this “bridge” was 10 million Naira,” says a Twitter post by Guess Who published on Saturday October 17, 2020. The post has a picture of man cutting a ribbon to commission a small rickety wooden …
Multiple viral posts claiming that Nigeria’s nominee for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed by the organisation surfaced online Thursday evening of October 8, 2020. The posts, which came in …
THE PRESIDENT of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari during his October 1, speech to mark the country’s 60th Independence celebration said it was irrational for oil to be cheaper in Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia. Nigeria got her independence on October 1, …
ON September 14, Kelvin Odanz @MrOdanz shared a tweet claiming that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) senior school certificate examination held in Chibok, one of the epicentres of Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State, Nigeria. He applauded the fete …
A viral message retrieved from a WhatsApp group on Thursday, September 17, 2020 says the Department of Development Control of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) in the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is set to demolish a list of …
