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Nigerian information minister calls for more funding to tackle fake news

News Nurudeen Akewushola - November 3, 2022

NIGERIA's minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has called for an upward review of the budgetary allocation for the ministry of information and...

Buhari advocates media literacy to fight fake news

News Nurudeen Akewushola - October 27, 2022

NIGERIA's President, Muhammadu Buhari, has called on all nations, multilateral and donor agencies to support global financing of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) to...

2023 Election: Nigerian military warns politicians, social media handlers against disinformation

News Nurudeen Akewushola - October 20, 2022

NIGERIA's Defence Headquarters has warned politicians and their social media handlers to desist from misusing images and visuals of military personnel to campaign and...

Misinformation, disinformation could mar Nigeria’s 2023 elections, CDD warns

News Nurudeen Akewushola - October 6, 2022

THE Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has said the proliferation of electoral disinformation, misinformation and weaponisation of fake news, pose threat to the...

Effective measures required to curb spread of disinformation, misinformation via text message

News Raji Olatunji - September 21, 2022

THERE are more conversations about how to combat election disinformation and misinformation on social media, but there seems not to be a comparable effort...

Did US-funded Biolabs in Nigeria lead to monkeypox outbreak?

Health Olayinka Shehu - September 21, 2022

The media space, especially social media platforms, has been inundated with claims that the current spread of monkeypox was linked to at least four...

2023 elections: Media houses urged to embrace fact-checking

News Nurudeen Akewushola - September 6, 2022

NIGERIAN media houses have been urged to establish fact-checking desks in their newsrooms and incorporate fact-checking processes in their journalism practice in order tackle...

Panellists at fact-checkers conference task Facebook, Twitter to halt fake news

News FactCheckHub - September 6, 2022

By Harrison Edeh PANELLISTS at the Nigerian Fact-checkers Coalition Conference in Abuja on Tuesday asked social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook to take more...

Misinformation: US, Nigeria face similar problems – Diplomat

News FactCheckHub - September 6, 2022

By Sinafi Omanga THE United States (US) has said the problem of misinformation during electioneering campaigns that Nigeria is facing ahead of the nation's 2023...

ICIR, Mac-Arthur raise concerns over state-sponsored misinformation in Nigeria

News FactCheckHub - September 6, 2022

By Harrison Edeh AHEAD of Nigeria's 2023 general elections, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (The ICIR) and Mac-Arthur Foundation have raised concerns over state-sponsored...

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