In Nigeria, a memorial was held on the anniversary of what has come to be known as the 2020 Lekki shooting. The incident happened when security forces came to dispel a protest, christened EndSARS, primarily championed by youth against police brutality. …
AN image of a man dressed in the Nigerian camouflaged Police uniform sitting in front of other men in the Police-parading-suspects style has been circulated online with the claim, he is the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in Kaduna state …
A TWITTER post shared on May 24, by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of a separatist group in Nigeria known as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) claimed that “ISWAP, Boko Haram and Fulani boys” go around in public with AK47 guns …
ON Sunday, February 28, 2021, at least two major Nigerian dailies claimed in separate reports that 317 students from the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, abducted on Friday had been released. These national …
A PICTURE of a man drenched in blood has been shared multiple times online with the claim that it shows a scene from the Hausa/Yoruba clash at Shasha area of Ibadan, Oyo State. This photo surfaced online at the heat …
ON January 23, 2021 several images depicting the charred remains of burnt buildings were circulated online. The buildings were said to belong to the Seriki Fulani of Oyo state, Saliu Abdulkadir. A Twitter user with the handle @MFaarees_ also shared the …
SEVERAL Nigerian blogs on Sunday, November 15, 2020 reported that an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) was shot dead on Friday in Benin, the Edo State capital. The reports were published by rifnote, Sahara Reporters and 24 reports. The Nation …
ON September 10,2020, a report by a television news station – Television Continental Nigeria (TVC News Nigeria) – claimed that Nigeria has emerged the third most terrorised country in the world. This claim which has been republished by several blogs …
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, had on Sunday, July 26, 2020 claimed that the country is safer than it was five years ago. He disclosed this at a sit-out with Wounded Soldiers in Action …
On July 25th, a Twitter account with the handle @AustinNwabufo and profile name Austin Nwabufo, claimed that Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) is luring Abubakar Shekau with a vice-presidential ticket as a way of ending the insurgency. …
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