Daily Archives: May 16, 2025
Fact Guage:
Politics
Tope Fasua picks hole in ICIR fact-check, calls it ‘nonsense, nasty reporting’ — but he is incorrect
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
TOPE Fasua, founder and 2019 presidential candidate of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP), has reacted to a fact-check published by The ICIR,...
Politics
The falsehoods, exaggerations of Nigeria’s leading parties at first CDD presidential debate
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
TOP members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) met in Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, on Tuesday to...
Politics
Did PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar hand out food with N500 notes at his first election rally?
By Damilola OJETUNDE.
LAURETTA Onochie, a media aide to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, distributed cash and food at his...
General
FACT CHECK: Did North Korean president ask to recolonise Nigeria, Ghana?
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
THE North Korean President Kim Jong Un boasted that he could transform Nigeria and Ghana into first world countries if he were allowed...
General
Has President Muhammadu Buhari died and been replaced by an impostor?
A NUMBER of high-profile public figures in Nigeria, including a former government minister, have claimed President Muhammadu Buhari is dead and is being imitated...
Politics
FACT CHECK: Buhari lists uncompleted project as achievement in campaign manual
President Muhammadu Buhari has again listed as one of his achievements the N2.5 billion Northern Ishan Regional Water Supply project in Edo State, a...
Politics
Buhari, Osinbajo in scorecard contradiction
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
IN an attempt to draw attention to the achievements of the federal government in diversifying the nation’s economy, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has...
Insights
Ezekwesili faults ICIR’s fact check on her out-of-school children’s claim
By Chikezie OMEJE.
OBY Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has faulted The ICIR’s fact check on her claim that from the...
General
FACT CHECK: Oby Ezekwesili’s claim on out-of-school children is inaccurate
By Chikezie OMEJE.
OBY Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) says that from the year 2000 till date, Nigeria has...
Insights
ICIR’s Chikezie Omeje wins Africa Check’s fact check award
CHIKEZIE Omeje, a Senior Investigative Reporter with the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR), has emerged winner of the 2018 fact check award which...
