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Elections
Does Nigeria’s electoral law say a contestant for House of Reps seat must possess N70 million cash?
The majority leader of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, has claimed that the electoral law permits a contestant for the House of Representatives...
Politics
Video of DSS barring lawmakers from entering National Assembly is over 4 years old
A video showing some lawmakers at the entrance of Nigeria's legislative complex in Abuja has circulated online with a claim that the Department of...
News
2023: Nigerian fact-checkers deploy Full Fact’s AI tools to combat election-related misinformation
FULL Fact, a UK-based fact-checking organisation, has partnered with the Nigerian Fact-checkers Coalition (NFC) to promote credibility of information available in public space during...
News
ICIR, FactCheckHub train FCT teachers, students on fact-checking
The International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) in collaboration with the FactCheckHub on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 trained some teachers and students of Government...
Elections
2023 election: How false attributions on social media contribute to misinformation
As part of their strategy to undermine Nigeria's 2023 general elections, fake news merchants are now attributing unfounded statements to public figures to dissuade...
General
Tems is not first Nigerian female singer to win Grammy Awards
A claim has circulated online that Tems is the first Nigerian female singer to win the Grammy Awards.
The claim, as published by an online...
Elections
Festus Keyamo shares misleading photo to depict APC campaign rally in Sokoto
THE spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has shared a photo that shows an aerial image of crowd...
Insights
How Charly Boy spreads disinformation to promote Peter Obi’s candidacy
NIGERIAN music artiste, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa also known as Charly Boy, is fond of using manipulated videos and photos to promote the presidential bid...
Politics
No, photo does not show Mamman Daura giving orders to Emefiele
A popular columnist with The Nation newspaper, Sam Omatseye has tweeted a photo with a claim that it shows Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari's nephew,...
Government Policy
Fact-checking Peter Obi’s claim on monthly salary of professors in Nigeria
PETER Obi, Labour Party's presidential candidate in Nigeria's 2023 general election, has claimed that a Professor in the country receives N400,000 as monthly salary,...
