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How fake PVC registration websites stirred misinformation over INEC’s CVR exercise
JUST as the Continuous Voters’ Registration (CVR) exercise embarked upon by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was winding down in July 2022, fake...
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How accurate is Atiku’s claim on population of social media users in Northern Nigeria?
THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has claimed that 90 per cent of Nigerians from the Northern part of...
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How resignation of APC chieftain stirs misinformation online
SHORTLY after an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Daniel Bwala, announced his resignation from the party on Sunday, July 10, 2020, misinformation about his...
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How accurate are Omigbodun’s claims on poverty rate in Osun, Nigeria?
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...
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Six ways to identify ‘fake’ images on internet
Fake news peddlers often take photographs out of context.
They digitally alter the photographs to promote an agenda or push an interest, thus manipulating...
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How misinformation almost marred 2022 Ekiti governorship election
EKITI State governorship election was held on June 18 after several weeks of preparations with sixteen contestants.
It was another opportunity for Ekiti residents...
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Biafra: How IPOB uses disinformation to push secession agenda
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...
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No, ASUU strike has not been called off!
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"...
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How the religious toga of misinformation fuelled COVID-19 pandemic
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...
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Who brought Econet to Nigeria?
FORMER Lagos State governor and presidential aspirant on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has claimed that he brought a leading...
