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Ezekwesili, other panellists at ICIR, ICFJ webinar mull new approach against fake news

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NIGERIA’s former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, on Wednesday, disclosed the need to consider motivating purveyors of factual information, through incentives as a way of discouraging the spread of fake news. Ezekwesili made the call during a webinar jointly …

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Ezekwesili leads Daily Trust, BudgIt, CDD bosses to headline ICIR, ICFJ Knight Fellowship webinar on misinformation

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The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) in conjunction with the ICFJ Knight Fellowship in Nigeria will on Wednesday, March 31st, 2021, hold a webinar on stemming misinformation. This is in keeping with the The ICIR interest in dispelling misinformation …

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With 55 per cent slash in Education, 42 percent in Health, Executive undercuts development priorities

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By, Paul ADEYEYE A REVIEW of the Revised 2020 Budget exclusively obtained by DATAPHYTE indicates that the Federal Government has reduced the total budget size by only ₦84.71 billion. Against the background that the government initially proposed a ₦1.5 trillion budget cut (over 14 percent reduction …

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World Population Day 2019: How many people really live in Nigeria?

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By ‘Kunle ADEBAJO. DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the National Population Commission (NPC), Ghaji Bello, on Wednesday, said the estimation of Nigeria’s population presently stands at about 198 million. The NPC was set up by the federal government to collect and publish data on population, so …

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Ezekwesili faults ICIR’s fact check on her out-of-school children’s claim

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By Chikezie OMEJE. OBY Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has faulted The ICIR’s fact check on her claim that from the year 2000 till date, Nigeria has never reduced the number of out-of-school children except the …

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ICIR’s Chikezie Omeje wins Africa Check’s fact check award

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CHIKEZIE Omeje, a Senior Investigative Reporter with the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), has emerged winner of the 2018 fact check award which was organised by Africa Check. Omeje’s entry, a fact-check report on whether Nigeria actually recorded a decline in preschool …

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NBS pulls down misleading education statistics after fact check by ICIR

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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has secretly pulled down inaccurate and misleading ‘Education Statistics’ uploaded on its website after the ICIR fact-checked the data. The education statistics gave a breakdown of school enrolment across the country from 2014 to …

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