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General
Odalo, Nigeria’s Twitter swindler faking “heart disease” to scam women
ON a day when stars seemed at peace, Elsa (who requested that we use only her first name) fell for the oldest wooing trick...
Insights
All you need to know about Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi off-cycle elections
RESIDENTS of Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo States will choose their new governors on November 11, 2023 respectively, when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
News
Musk explains how X corrects inaccurate posts with community notes
Elon Musk, the Chief Executive Officer of X (formerly Twitter), has said the platform introduced "Community Notes" to achieve a consensus-driven and non-censoring approach...
Government Policy
Is FG giving each Nigerian N25,000 under the Conditional Cash Transfer initiative?
A link to a website with the tag: “FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 25,000 NAIRA CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER” is circulating widely in closed WhatsApp groups in Nigeria.
The message is...
Tutorials
How to help children spot fake news
CHILDREN today are learning how to live, work, learn, contribute, and prosper in a digital society as they become more digitally literate and this...
General
No, Justice Tsammani is NOT battling prostate cancer on a wheelchair!
Multiple reports circulating online claim that Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, the head of the five-man panel of the 2023 Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC),...
General
False claim that Davido is sharing airtime, data to celebrate twins arrival circulates online
A claim has been circulating on WhatsApp that a Nigerian singer and record producer, David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly called Davido is sharing 5,000 naira...
General
Fake list of sundry charges by WAEC circulates online
A Facebook user, Olatoke AbdulAzeez Kolawole, recently posted a list purporting to emanate from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on payment of sundry...
Health
How true is the claim that eating Beans with ripe Plantains is ‘food poison’?
A claim that eating beans with ripe plantain, a popular food combination in Nigeria, is considered poisonous and unhealthy has resurfaced online.
The combination is...
General
Claim that FUOYE students designed a waiter robot is false!
A claim that students of the Department of Mechatronics at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, in Ekiti state have designed and constructed a waiter robot...
