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Twitter did not change action buttons in solidarity of June 12 protest
On Saturday June 12, 2021, Many Nigerians across multiple locations took to the street in protest to show and air their grievance and dissatisfaction...
COVID-19
Riding on WhatsApp, scam sites soar in wake of COVID-19
Troubling misinformation around COVID-19 and its vaccines hits Nigeria. The country also has to bother about cyber insecurity riding on the coattails of the...
Government Policy
Malami joins Nigerians to defy ban, access Twitter using VPN
Did the Nigeria Attorney General of Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami flout Twitter ban? a question posed to the FactCheckHub for verification.
The Federal Government of...
Government Policy
Is Nigeria the only country in Africa where Twitter is restricted?
THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on June 5, 2021 claimed that Nigeria is the only African country where Twitter is restricted.
SERAP made...
General
Nigeria: Twitter policy didn’t author action review tweet in circulation
A photo of a tweet stating that Twitter has promised to respect the laws and sovereignty of Nigeria circulated on social media was alleged...
General
Facebook CEO didn’t author tweet claiming Buhari cannot ‘think properly’
A photo of a  tweet stating that the president of Nigeria is suffering from the ‘inability to think properly’  which has gone viral on...
Insights
How Twitter stirred inter ethnic crisis in Oyo amidst pandemic
FEBRUARY 15, 2021. Ajani Olaide, a resident of Shasha community narrated how his uncle was killed during the ethnic crisis that ensued between Hausa...
Insights
Has First Bank closed its South East branches?
A Special Assistant on New Media to Nigeria's Senate President Abubakar Usman on June 2, 2021 claimed that First Bank of Nigeria has closed...
Security
Photo shared by Nnamdi Kanu, not of ISWAP, Boko Haram in Nigeria
A TWITTER post shared on May 24, by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of a separatist group in Nigeria known as the Indigenous People of Biafra...
General
Did Bishop Kukah praise separatist leader, Kanu, as man of truth?
A news report shared online claimed that the current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto Matthew Hassan Kukah recently described the leader...
