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Health
How true is the claim that drinking pineapple with hot water cures cancer?
A video has circulated online claiming that drinking pineapple with hot water can cure cancer.
A Facebook user, Oyindamola Adeniyi, posted the video on the...
Elections
#NigeriaDecides2023: A guide to understanding opinion polls during the campaign season
By Oluseyi Awojulugbe
Nigeria's 2023 elections will be the seventh since the country's return to democratic rule in 1999. And voter interest – and registration...
Elections
No, Tinubu didn’t say he was an ‘Igbo man’
By Motunrayo Joel
IN SHORT: As the race to the 2023 Nigerian elections speeds up, it’s been reported on social media that the ruling party's...
News
Buhari advocates media literacy to fight fake news
NIGERIA's President, Muhammadu Buhari, has called on all nations, multilateral and donor agencies to support global financing of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) to...
News
Google announces initiatives to help curb misinformation, improve media literacy in Africa
GOOGLE has announced additional initiatives through the Google News Initiative (GIS) to support African journalists and fact-checking organisations to advance media literacy in the...
Economy
Claim that Obi said he pulled 439 million people out of poverty is FALSE
A viral video has surfaced online alongside a claim that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, said he pulled 439 million...
Security
False claim circulates that Apostle Suleman’s daughter was killed in Edo convoy attack
A report has circulated online that the daughter of Apostle Johnson Suleman was among those killed in the recent attack on the pastor's convoy...
Economy
How true is Peter Obi’s claim on poverty rate in northern Nigeria?
THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said that all the top 10 poorest states in the country are in northern...
News
2023 Election: Nigerian military warns politicians, social media handlers against disinformation
NIGERIA's Defence Headquarters has warned politicians and their social media handlers to desist from misusing images and visuals of military personnel to campaign and...
Economy
Tinubu makes inaccurate claims about Nigeria’s crude oil production, pricing in 2015
By Philip Shimnom Clement
THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 election, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently stated that Nigeria's...
