A video showing a lynched man inside a vehicle has surfaced online with a claim that it shows the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa State, Hudu Ari, who declared Aisha Dahiru, popularly called Binani, as the winner of …
A Nigerian music artiste, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has shared a video alongside a claim that the United States had criticized Nigeria’s February 25 presidential election and asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prove …
Following the declaration of Alex Otti as the winner of Abia State gubernatorial election held on March 18, 2023, netizens have repeatedly shared a post on social media with the claim that he is the first elected governor under the …
The spokesperson for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council for Nigeria’s 2023 general election, Kenneth Okonkwo, has made a claim that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has sacked the resident electoral commissioners (RECs) for Sokoto and Abia States. Okonkwo made …
A former Nigerian lawmaker and spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye, has shared a photo alongside a claim that suggests that the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s life is in danger. …
FULL Fact, a UK-based fact-checking organisation, has partnered with the Nigerian Fact-checkers Coalition (NFC) to promote credibility of information available in public space during Nigeria’s 2023 general elections. The partnership will see the coalition partners access the Full Fact’s AI …
TIKTOK has announced the launch of the Nigeria Election Hub, an in-app election guide, with promises to uphold the integrity of the country’s general election, as Nigerians head to the poll on February 25, 2023. The in-app guide is aimed …
NIGERIA’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is in talks with the management of Meta (Facebook parent company) to combat the menace of election disinformation ahead of the nation’s 2023 polls. INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Victor Aluko, disclosed …
THE impact of information disorder has begun to play out in the build-up to Nigeria’s general election, holding in February and March this year. The social media is filled with several forms of information disorder emanating from politicians and their …
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disowned a website advertising ad-hoc staff positions for the agency for the 2023 general election. It will be recalled that INEC had earlier in September 2022 opened a portal for the recruitment of …