Daily Archives: Jul 27, 2026
Fact Guage:
Economy
Claim by FIRS that Nigeria is the only country that collects VAT at subnational level is false
LEAD of the Special Tax Operations Group at the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Mathew Gbonjubola claimed that there was nowhere in the world,...
General
Video does NOT show Christians wrapped in plastic bags in Afghanistan
A video of people wrapped in plastic bags spread on the floor has been shared multiple times on WhatsApp in Nigeria with the claim...
Economy
Joe Igbokwe makes misleading claim on Nigeria’s agricultural sector growth
IN a bid to show that insecurity in Nigeria did not impact negatively on the agricultural sector, Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on...
General
Viral images of football pitch submerged by flood not of Lekan Salami but Hillsborough
BARELY 24 hours after the Oyo State governor Seyi Makinde commissioned the remodelled Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba, Ibadan, the state capital, mixed reactions have...
Politics
No! Kenyan government official did not threaten Larry Madowo on TV
POPULAR Nigerian blog, Instablog9ja, on Thursday, 26th August 2021, posted on its Instagram page a viral video that claimed that a Kenyan government official...
Health
Cholera did NOT kill 938 people in 22 states as claimed by minister
The minister of environment Mohammed Mahmood Abubakar on Monday, August 23, 2021 claimed that the cholera outbreak has so far led to the death...
Insights
NDA attack: Facts about viral video in circulation
A viral video, on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, emerged on social media shortly after local media reported news of the bandits' attack on the...
Government Policy
Omo-Agege repeats false claim about Buhari’s records
ON Saturday, August 21, 2021, the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate Ovie Omo-Agege repeated the APC cliché about ‘Buhari change’ which Nigerians’ reality...
Government Policy
Did Ugandan President say jailed gay couple will remain confined until one gets pregnant?
ON August 19, 2021, FactCheckHub received a post shared on WhatsApp alleging that the Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, said a gay couple would...
Insights
Facebook has removed 18 million posts with COVID-19 misinformation – Zuckerberg
FACEBOOK has removed 18 million posts containing misinformation about COVID-19, the founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg told "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King...
