Daily Archives: Sep 20, 2026
Fact Guage:
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...
Government Policy
NYSC says it’s at ‘forefront’ of total compliance with FOI Act, but it’s not true
THE Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim on Friday says the Corps has been at the forefront of  total...
Economy
Democracy Day speech: Buhari’s GDP growth rate contradicts figures from CBN, IMF, others
DELIVERING the customary annual speech on the occasion of Nigeria’s Democracy Day celebration on Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari said the country’s Gross Domestic Product...
Health
Ngige’s claim about surplus doctors in Nigeria is FALSE
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
NIGERIA’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said there is nothing worrisome about the population of doctors in the country as there are...
Security
FACT CHECK: Is Adesina right about Boko Haram being dislodged from Sambisa Forest?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
FEMI Adesina, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, on Saturday published an article about the administration, titled ‘PMB’s Second Term: Looking...
Politics
FACT CHECK: Did Atiku hire US lobbyists to get him recognised as president or was the story fabricated?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
ON Tuesday, the Centre for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group based in Washington DC, reported that presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP),...
General
FACT CHECK: Did Buhari budget N79m to have his haircut in 2019?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari plans to spend up to N79 million in 2019 just to regularly get his haircut, goes a claim that has...
