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: Has Presidential Election Petition Tribunal Fixed September 16 for Judgement?
On the morning of Monday, August 28, 2023, Nigerians awoke to the news that the much-anticipated Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) judgement had been scheduled for September 16, 2023. Going by discussions on social media, the date is anticipated to be when the election tribunal court will announce its verdict regarding the election petitions filed...
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FACT CHECK: How true are claims by Igbo Times about alleged suspension of Nigerian courts, Abaribe’s death?
Igbo Times Magazine, an ethnic-based news blog, reported that Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, has suspended all courts in the country due to fears of disqualification. The platform, in the report dated July 26, 2023, asserted that this announcement was made through a statement where the president cited “uncovered evidence of widespread fraud in the judiciary”...
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FACT CHECK: Did the judges acknowledge Chimamanda Adichie in court?
A social media user has claimed that the judges at the Presidential Election Petition Court on August 1, 2023, acknowledged the presence of award-winning writer, Chimamanda Adichie. The claim was discovered on Twitter, where it had received over four thousand likes and had been viewed over 72 thousand times as of the time of this...
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FACT CHECK: Nigerian public officers’ pay has not been adjusted since 1999?
Adams Oshiomhole, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), representing Edo North in the 10th Nigerian Senate, has claimed in a recent interview with Channels TV, that the pay of public officers has not been adjusted since the year 1999. The former national chairman of the APC and ex governor of Edo state,...
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FACT CHECK: Did Tinubu vow to reduce fuel price to N100 per litre?
Social media influencer, Gossip Mill Nigeria, recently shared a video purporting to capture the moment when Bola Tinubu promised to reduce fuel price to N100 per litre if elected as Nigeria’s President. On the verified Twitter handle of the influencer, Tinubu was quoted to have said in the video, “Fuel is N200 per litre now,...
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FACT CHECK: Do these Twitter Handles belong to Senate President, Godswill Akpabio?
Multiple Twitter accounts purporting to belong to Godswill Akpabio, the President of the 10th Nigeria Senate, have been observed to be sharing numerous posts on the microblogging platform. A Twitter account with the username Senator Godswill akpabio, CON @sen_akpabio, is followed by Sheu Sani, a former Senator, and other 8,862 followers as of the time...
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FACT CHECK: Rueben Abati makes multiple inaccurate claims about legislation signed by Jonathan
Dr. Reuben Abati, a columnist, and broadcast journalist with Arise News, has made multiple claims regarding the bills signed into law by former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan. Abati, who served as Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity between 2011 and 2015, made these claims during The Morning Show aired on Arise News on Thursday,...
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FACT CHECK: Claims On INEC Transmission of Results Checked
At the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Friday, June 16, 2023, the counsel representing the All Progressive Congress (APC) claimed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced that the results of the presidential election would not be transmitted live. Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Abiodun Owonikoko stated that the INEC chairman made the...