Daily Archives: Mar 28, 2025
Fact Guage:
General
FACT CHECK: Are Shoprite supermarkets in Nigeria franchise outlets?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
FOLLOWING recent xenophobic attacks and violent reactions in Nigeria that have seen properties of companies believed to be owned by South Africans being damaged in protest, some...
Government Policy
Two recently shared pictures, video are not from fresh xenophobic attacks
By Rebecca Akinremi.
XENOPHOBIC attacks in South Africa have become more prominent, particularly in the past one week, with many foreign nationals killed, threatened, and their...
Government Policy
G7 2019 summit: Why Nigeria was not invited
By Damilola OJETUNDE.
THE G7 2019 summit held in France between August 24 and 26 had come and gone.Â
The G7 annual meeting is attended only by...
General
FACT CHECK: Photos of burnt animals in popular tweet aren’t from fires in Amazon
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
IN August 2019 many news outlets reported that the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, was burning at an alarming rate.
The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in...
Economy
Has Nigeria really achieved food security?
ON Tuesday 13th August, President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed that Nigeria has achieved food security, thus directed the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to...
Science
FACT CHECK: Does solar tech contribute up to 20% of world’s power production?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
IBRAHIM Ali, a one-time Nigerian minister of state for petroleum resources and former managing director of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), said that “20 per cent of power...
Insights
World Population Day 2019: How many people really live in Nigeria?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the National Population Commission (NPC), Ghaji Bello, on Wednesday, said the estimation of Nigeria’s population presently stands at about 198 million.
The...
Security
FACT CHECK: No, it is not true Nigeria has recorded only 18 convictions in rape cases
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
Following a recent rape allegation against Biodun Fatoyinbo, senior pastor at the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), one claim that has gone viral on the...
General
Fact-checking social media influencers who shared fake news during Nigerian general elections
Ahead of the 2019 Nigeria’s general elections, many Nigerians knowingly or ignorantly shared misinformation on the social media. Some of these purveyors of fake...
Elections
Did INEC receive money for servers to store electoral data?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
WHETHER or not the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, made use of a central server in storing poll results for the 2019 general...
