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General
FACT CHECK: Femi Adesina exaggerated, there weren’t 10 bombings a day before Buhari
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
FEMI Adesina, spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari said there were as many as 10 bombings in a single day before Buhari’s administration started...
Politics
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...
Economy
Akeredolu’s govt lies about reducing debt
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
Ondo's debt profile has increased by 17 per cent since 2016.
THE ONDO State Government led by Rotimi Akeredolu claimed it inherited a total...
General
FACT CHECK: Did a news report describe Sowore as gravely ill?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
THE CIRCUMSTANCES of former presidential aspirant Omoyele Sowore’s rearrest on Friday have led many to speculate that the Department of State Services (DSS) intends to...
General
FACT CHECK: Are 2 million Nigerians raped every year? Here’s what we know
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
NIGERIA’s Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen, according to a report, said last week that two (2) million Nigerians...
Economy
Did China close its borders ‘to the whole world’ for 20 to 40 years?
IN DEFENDING Nigeria’s decision to close its land borders, the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali, has repeatedly claimed that China similarly shut...
Elections
FACT CHECK: Fake photos shared during Kogi/Bayelsa elections
By Seun DUROJAIYE.
DESPITE public outcry against the rise of information disorder in Nigeria,  partisan groups and social media trolls still circulated images that turned...
Elections
FACT CHECK: Photos from 2015 polls, xenophobic attacks shared in connection to Kogi, Bayelsa elections
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
PICTURES from the general elections conducted four years ago and 2015 xenophobic attacks in South Africa have been recently shared in support of...
Politics
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...
General
FACT CHECK: Pictures of Nigerians protesting Buhari’s medical tourism in London are FAKE
By Damilola OJETUNDE.
PICTURES showing Nigerians protesting President Muhammadu Buhari’s claimed medical tourism in London are not true, a Fact Check by The ICIR has shown.
The...
