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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...
Government Policy
Report of Nigeria topping Africa contradicts FG’s claims on local rice production
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO.
IN JULY 2014, Akinwumi Adesina, then minister of agriculture and rural development, predicted that Nigeria would become Africa’s largest rice exporter ‘in five...
Elections
Video showing Saraki being booed after election is FALSE
A VIDEO claiming that Bukola Saraki was booed by some people after the February 23 presidential election is not true.
The video, which was shared...
Politics
Man caught with PVCs is ex-officio member of PDP in Mpkat Enin LGA of Akwa Ibom state
By Crosscheck Nigeria.
A picture of men allegedly caught with PVCs in Akwa Ibom state is making the rounds on social media, with supporters of both...
