JUST as the Continuous Voters’ Registration (CVR) exercise embarked upon by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was winding down in July 2022, fake websites advertising voter’s card registration circulated online. The web links were shared alongside some texts on …
THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has claimed that 90 per cent of Nigerians from the Northern part of the country are not on social media. The former vice president made the claim in an …
SHORTLY after an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Daniel Bwala, announced his resignation from the party on Sunday, July 10, 2020, misinformation about his action trended online. Bwala, who is the special adviser to the Deputy Senate President on legal …
OYEGOKE Omigbodun, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate for the 2022 Osun state gubernatorial election, has claimed that Osun is one of the worst-hit states by poverty in Nigeria with 47% of people in the state living below the poverty …
Fake news peddlers often take photographs out of context. They digitally alter the photographs to promote an agenda or push an interest, thus manipulating the readers, knowing fully well that people tend to accept photographs as evidence to validate a …
EKITI State governorship election was held on June 18 after several weeks of preparations with sixteen contestants. It was another opportunity for Ekiti residents and indigenes to elect their next administrator, who would pilot the affairs of the state for …
By Ebunoluwa Olafusi THE Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a separatist group in Nigeria, is pushing for the establishment of a sovereign state for the people of the south-east extraction. The group’s motivation to exit the Nigerian federation is …
By Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed On the 9th of June, 2022, a Facebook user identified simply as Saint Luke posted in a group named “UDUS Newsline” a claim that tertiary institutions will resume academic calendar as the Academic Staff Union …
DURING the peak of the pandemic, many religious leaders innocuously spread false narratives about COVID-19 among members of their congregation which put many lives at risk. Most of the misinformation had stemmed from a place of fear and confusion, and …
FORMER Lagos State governor and presidential aspirant on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has claimed that he brought a leading mobile telecommunications company, Econet, now Airtel to Nigeria. Tinubu made this claim while speaking before the …
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