A news report is circulating on social media with the headline, “195 fear dead, As Appeal Court Affirms Labour Party Candidate As Winner Of House Of Reps Seat”. The report, retrieved from the instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, was published by a news blog known as Famous Reporters on November 2, 2023. Claim: 195 feared dead...
Author: Raji Olatunji (Abdulazeez Raji)
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FACT CHECK: How true is the claim that bandits have asked all churches in Nigeria to shut down?
A video is making the rounds on social media with the claim that bandits have issued threat letters in which they have ordered all churches in Nigeria to shut down. The video, which was retrieved from WhatsApp on Sunday, October 29, 2023, shows a social media influencer with the alias Edobabe, alongside a clip of...
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FACT-CHECK: Is Justice Tsammani battling prostate cancer, confined to wheelchair?
Multiple reports circulating online claim that Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, head of the five-man panel of the 2023 Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), is battling prostate cancer and has been confined to a wheelchair. This is coming barely two months after the PEPC delivered its judgement on the petitions filed by Peter Obi, candidate of...
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FACT CHECK: Did Supreme Court bar foreign media outlets from the hearing on Obi, Atiku’s appeals?
A news report is circulating online, claiming that foreign media outlets were prohibited from attending the hearing of the appeals filed by Peter Obi; presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), and Atiku Abubakar; presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the Supreme Court of Nigeria. The report, with the headline, “SUPREME COURT...
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FACT CHECK: How true is claim by LP’s Achonu that events no longer hold in Orlu zone, Imo?
Athan Achonu, the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party for the November 11 off-cycle governorship election in Imo state, recently had an interview on national TV where he spoke about issues bordering on the internal wranglings of the party and the security situation in the state. During the interview, Achonu made multiple claims regarding the...
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FACT CHECK: Imo state houses the largest gas reserves in West Africa?
Jerry Chukwuekwe, the chief technical adviser to Hope Uzodinma, the incumbent governor of Imo state, claimed in a recent interview that the state hosts the largest gas reserves in West Africa. He made this known while speaking on the governor’s bid for re-election in the upcoming gubernatorial election scheduled for November 11, 2023. While discussing...
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UPDATED: Euromonitor refutes claim that it ranked Nigeria 4th largest consumer of sugary drinks globally
Euromonitor International, a global market research organisation, has refuted the claim that it ranked Nigeria as the fourth largest consumer of sugary drinks globally. Recall that Adewunmi Emoruwa, an X user, had claimed in a tweet dated July 9, 2023, that “Nigeria is the 4th largest sugary drinks consuming country on earth”. We checked the...
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FACT CHECK: How accurate are these claims about the rise in Imo state’s IGR, GDP ranking?
Ahead of the November 11 gubernatorial election in Imo state, political parties have commenced their campaigns to win the support of the electorate for their respective candidates. A recent example of such efforts to woo voters is an interview granted by George Agbakaki, the Southeast leader of the Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO). In the interview,...
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FACT CHECK: Did Macron say France would not ‘hand over’ Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger?
Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, has been quoted as saying in a video that his country would not hand over Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. The claim was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, alongside the video of Macron. At the time of retrieval from the microblogging platform, the post, made by a...
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FACT CHECK: How true is the claim by Adewunmi, Gatefield’s lead strategist, about CDD’s fact check?
Adewunmi Emoruwa, a lead strategist at Gatefield, has claimed that the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) West Africa, wrongly labelled a proven fact as false. In a tweet posted on Monday, August 21, 2023, Emoruwa said, “CDD West Africa falsely claimed an actual fact was false using two false equivalencies that showed a lack...