On April 30, 2023, Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media and publicity to Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, released a fact sheet comprising a list of achievements accomplished during the current administration. The fact sheet was divided into various categories such as health and education, social investment and poverty alleviation, infrastructural development, financing and investment,...
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FACT CHECK: Did Obi’s lawyers inform court that LP’s star witnesses were sick?
FACT CHECK: Did CBN devalue the Naira to 630/$1?
FACT CHECK: Multiple false claims trail Emdee Tiamiyu’s controversial BBC interview
FACT CHECK: Did Nigeria spend $10 billion on fuel subsidy in 2022 as claimed by Shettima?
FACT CHECK: Completion of Second Niger Bridge, other legacy infrastructure projects
FACT CHECK: Reducing terrorism and banditry
FACT CHECK: Provision of Enabling Environment for Private Sector Business
FACT CHECK: Did Buhari’s Administration Provide Succour for Poor Nigerians to Earn a Living
FACT CHECK: Nigeria’s Economy had Become Resilient to External Shocks due to Policies Put in Place by the Outgoing Administration.
FACT CHECK: Did Buhari, Dabiri describe Nigerians as lazy, cultists and drug dealers?
FACT CHECK: Does picture show a charging cord attached to Bola Tinubu’s arm?
FACT CHECK: Bode George makes multiple claims, how true are they?
FACT CHECK: Is the use of phones disallowed at the presidential election petition tribunal?
FACT CHECK: Bola Tinubu won only five states in the 2023 presidential election?
FACT CHECK: Did Ganduje Mention Plans To Scuttle Presidential Tribunal Verdict In Leaked Audio?
FACT CHECK: Femi Adesina made multiple claims in his fact sheet, how true are they?
FACT CHECK: How true are these claims by Ben Ayade?
FACT CHECK: Did security agents prevent Peter Obi’s supporters from accessing the Tribunal Court?
FACT CHECK: Garba Sheu releases press statement with multiple claims
Category: Anti-Corruption
FACT CHECK: Did Tinubu bribe ICC with $400m to influence his prosecution?
On March 31, 2023, a post went viral on Twitter and Facebook claiming that the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected a $400 million bribe from the president-elect, Bola Tinubu. The claim comes a few days after the Court of Appeal in Abuja granted permission to the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to serve his...
FACT CHECK: El-Rufai’s Claim on Percentage of Account Owners in Nigeria Inaccurate
Claim 1: Only 34% of Nigerians have bank accounts Verdict: Inaccurate Context: The Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, recently stated that only 34 percent of Nigerians owned bank accounts. The governor, who made the comment when he met with the traders association in the state. He said it is a deliberate conspiracy against the...
Are There 10 Nigerian States with Bigger GDPs Than Some African Countries?
CONTEXT: Nigeria Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo while receiving a group of Harvard Business School students at the State House in Abuja, urged the international community not to compare Nigeria to some smaller African countries in terms of economy. His statement read,
Did Tinubu say Electoral Act 2022 Will Affect Democracy?
CONTEXT: A Facebook post titled, “The New Electoral bill signed by Mr President will affect our democracy” allegedly authored by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone viral. The post was made on a media page, PressExpress Nigeria, on Sunday July 24, 2022.
Is Peter Obi’s Claim that Nigeria Has About 100 Players in NBA True?
CLAIM: Peter Obi claimed that Nigeria has about 100 players in NBA.
Did Members of the PDP’s Executive Committee in Kwara State Decamp to APC?
CLAIM: All executive members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State have defected to the APC.
VERDICT: False
CHECKING CLAIMS MADE DURING ATIKU’S INTERVIEW
CONTEXT: In a one-hour exclusive interview on Arise TV, the former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar made several claims that are fact-check worthy.
Are 40% of Osun Voters Between 18-34 years?
Are 40% of Osun Voters Between 18-34 years?
Are Nigeria’s Federal, Appeal and Supreme Courts Headed by Christians?
CONTEXT: A former aviation minister and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Femi Fani Kayode popularly known as FFK, recently took to his Twitter handle to say that the federal high court, appeal court and the supreme court are all headed by Christians.
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