By Aishah Saleeman Rotimi Amaechi, the former minister for transportation, claimed on Saturday that the current INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu worked under Wike as the executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). The claim has also been shared across multiple social media platforms, including Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook. It has also been...
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FACT CHECK: Did 10 BVAS machine go missing in Oporoza community RAC?
Multiple posts making the rounds online claim that some Bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) machines were missing in Oporoza community in Warri South West Local Government Area. The tweets claimed 10 BVAS were missing out of the supposed 23 that were made available for the 23 polling units in the community. Verification CDD Election War...
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FACT CHECK: Can BVAS work and transmit results without a SIM card?
A video has been going viral in Kwara state that some BVAS machines in Alanamu, Ilorin West Local Government Area have no SIM card. The video caption reads: “SITUATION REPORT: APC plot to rig busted. Any BVAS without a SIM card must not be allowed to be used, because such BVAS won’t be able to...
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FACT CHECK: Is Tinubu in a critical condition, rushed to a hospital?
By Aishah Saleeman Multiple tweets making the rounds on Twitter claim that President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu was rushed to the hospital at midnight and is unable to cast his vote for Lagos state governorship candidate Babajide Sanwo-Olu. One version of the tweet claimed that Tinubu, who was referred to as “President select” “was rushed to...
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FACT CHECK: Melaye makes false claims about arrest of Lagos APC killer squad on election day
Dino Melaye, the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, posted a video on Twitter on March 17, 2023, stating that security agencies apprehended a “killer squad” in Lagos. Melaye’s tweet was captioned: “Killer squad in Apc crested cars arrested today by security agencies in Lagos. O ga ooooo” Less than 24...
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FACT CHECK: No, the Olumale Eluku of Ikorodu did not announce commencement of Eluku Festival
During the week, a poster attributed to the Olumale Eluku of Ikorodu began making rounds online. The alleged poster warned residents especially non-indigenes of the Ikorodu, Lagos and its environs to be weary of the Ikorodu township due to her Eluku festival which was from March 17, 2023, till March 21, 2023, to avoid seeing...
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FACT CHECK: Did US ask INEC to prove election results are credible as Charly Boy claims?
Nigerians at home and abroad have reacted in different ways to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) pronouncement which declared Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25, 2023 election. Multiple parties, including the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are contesting the elections through laid-out legal means. On March 15, 2023,...
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FACT CHECK: Did slain UNICAL Prof manipulate presidential election results for Tinubu?
The murder of a professor who was suspected of manipulating the presidential election results has been the subject of news reports. Numerous people have shared the news on social media, including Simon Ekpa, the self-described secessionist leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Ekpa claimed in a tweet that the professor allegedly manipulated the...
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FACT CHECK: Viral image does not show an attack on Olumide Oworu of the Labour Party
A viral picture of Olumide Oworu, the Labour Party candidate for Lagos State House of Assembly in Surulere Constituency I, went viral on social media alongside claims that thugs attacked him on Thursday, March 16, 2023. Following the said attack, a picture of a bloodied Oworu began circulating on social media. Verification CDD Election War...
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FACT CHECK: Did Jandor, PDP guber candidate, say he rejected GRV as running mate for being incapable?
A Twitter user posted a video interview of Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran, popularly called Jandor, with the claim that he rejected Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV) as his running mate for not being capable. This is coming three days before the March 18 gubernatorial and state house of assembly elections in Lagos state. Jandor and Gbadebo are both...