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Claim that Buhari travelled to France for a postponed summit is FALSE
A tweet that has been shared over 500 times, claimed that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari travelled to France to attend a summit that was...
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Fact-checking several claims attributed to Buhari
IN the heat of the accusations and counter-accusations that Nigeria's Minister for Communications Isa Pantami was sympathetic to terrorists and terrorist organisations, a collage...
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Claim on resignation of Ganduje’s aide on graveyard TRUE but tweet MISLEADING
ON August 10, a former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Chidi Odinkalu, tweeted that Yakubu Nagoda an aide to the Governor of Kano...
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Did Oyetola spend 3 days in Abuja without seeing Buni?
A POST with several claims about 2023 presidency and the internal leadership tussle in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party went viral on...
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Was Ize-Iyamu arraigned in Court for allegedly ‘looting’ N700m?
ON July 6, a Twitter user claimed that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 19 Edo State election,...
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Did court restrain Obaseki from contesting Edo PDP primaries?
By UTHMAN Samad.
DADDY D.O, a Twitter user with the username @DOlusegun, on Monday posted a document at exactly 11:51 pm with the claim that a Federal High...
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Buhari, Osinbajo misguided on Disability Rights Bill at town hall meeting
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
CHECKS conducted by The ICIRÂ have indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, were mistaken about the Discrimination...
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Pictures of bad roads in PDP’s press release are of Liberia, NOT Nigeria
By Damilola OJETUNDE
THE pictures shared by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) alongside its press release on the state of bad roads in Nigeria are not...
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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-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...
