Muktar Balogun
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News
DUBAWA, 10 others selected for IFCN fact-checking grant
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has awarded $450,000 in grant support to DUBAWA and 10 other fact-checking platforms across the…
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Fact Check
Is it true these five home remedies trigger abortion of unwanted pregnancy?
United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency revealed that nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year throughout…
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IFCN opens legal defense fund to fact-checkers
Enock Nyariki, the Community and Impact manager of The International Fact-Checking Network noted that an 11-member selection committee that will…
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Fact Check
Is Lagos the third largest economy in Africa as Shettima claims?
Candidates of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Labour Congress (LP), Peter Obi and Kashim Shettima, the vice presidential…
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Africa Facts summit holds in November
Africa Facts, a network of fact-checkers, will gather in person in Kenya for the first time since the COVID-19 disruption,…
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Fact Check
Fact-checking several claims on causes of kidney disease
Claim: A Facebook user shared a post with several claims on the functionality of the kidney and related diseases. Three…
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Facebook Checks
This Image of flooded poultry farm is not from Lagos
Claim: A Twitter user shared an image of a flooded poultry farm, claiming it is in Lagos State, Nigeria. The image…
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Fact Check
Nigerian minister did not say ASUU strike would be called off ‘next week’
Claim: A Twitter handle tweeted a claim that the education minister, Adamu Adamu, said the ongoing ASUU strike will be…
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Fact Check
Peter Obi met Pope Francis in 2019, not recently
Claim: A Facebook user shared images of presidential aspirant Peter Obi with Pope Francis with the insinuation that the politician…
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African Languages
Osinbajo ba ya raba wa ‘yan Najeriya tallafin dubu 33
Zargi: Wabi sakon WhatsApp na zargin wai mataimakin shugaban kasar Najeriya, Yemi Osinbajo na rabawa ‘yan Najeriya tallafi na nera…
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