Politics
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Politics
FACT CHECK: Peter Obi’s eleven false claims at VP debate
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
VICE Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, evidently gave out the greatest number of facts and figures at the...
Government Policy
FACT CHECK: Scrutinising Osinbajo’s misrepresentation about free trade agreement, and other claims at VP debate
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
VICE President Yemi Osinbajo was not entirely truthful about the African Continental Free Trade Area during his presentation at Friday’s Vice Presidential debate,...
Politics
FACT CHECK: Unemployment rate: Peter Obi is half right
PETER Obi, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP has claimed that the unemployment and underemployment rate in Nigeria rose from 24 per...
Politics
Tope Fasua picks hole in ICIR fact-check, calls it ‘nonsense, nasty reporting’ — but he is incorrect
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
TOPE Fasua, founder and 2019 presidential candidate of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP), has reacted to a fact-check published by The ICIR,...
Politics
The falsehoods, exaggerations of Nigeria’s leading parties at first CDD presidential debate
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
TOP members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) met in Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, on Tuesday to...
Politics
Did PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar hand out food with N500 notes at his first election rally?
By Damilola OJETUNDE.
LAURETTA Onochie, a media aide to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, distributed cash and food at his...
Politics
FACT CHECK: Buhari lists uncompleted project as achievement in campaign manual
President Muhammadu Buhari has again listed as one of his achievements the N2.5 billion Northern Ishan Regional Water Supply project in Edo State, a...
Politics
Buhari, Osinbajo in scorecard contradiction
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
IN an attempt to draw attention to the achievements of the federal government in diversifying the nation’s economy, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has...
Politics
FACT CHECK: Did Fayose leave N170b or N120b debt profile in Ekiti?
By YEKEEN Akinwale.
ACCUSATIONS of debts profile in Ekiti State have become a vicious cycle between the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi and his predecessor, Ayodele Fayose.
They...
Economy
FACT CHECK: Has Buhari appointed a ‘Chief Economic Adviser’? Yes and no
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
WITH the 2019 presidential election gradually drawing closer, claims are more frequently made in attempts to discredit one political party, candidate or the...
