Yusuf Akinpelu

Yusuf Akinpelu

Yusuf Akinpelu loves stories and he tells them for DUBAWA, having tested them against available facts. He is a graduate of Statistics from the University of Ibadan, where he won the 2019 Youth Digest Campus Journalism Award of the Best News Writer, and 2018 UCJUI Award for Campus Journalist of the year. Occasionally, he writes satires. He has interest in human rights and believes in the Nigerian Project.

Health

Yusuf AkinpeluMay 8, 2019
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False! China Is Not Importing Dead Bodies As Corned Beef Into Africa

CLAIM:Chinese corned beef are being processed by using dead bodies of Chinese people, after which it would be sent to…
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Education

Yusuf AkinpeluApril 26, 2019
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TRUE – USA, Germany, France Have No Educational Qualification For Office Of President

Just like in the US and Germany, the level of education attained is not a yardstick to becoming the President…
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Analysis

Yusuf AkinpeluApril 2, 2019
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Post-Election Fact-checking Analysis #2: How Misinformation Shaped the 2019 Elections

We are still dealing with the aftermath of the election and trying to understand how misinformation spreads in Nigeria and…
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Politics

Yusuf AkinpeluApril 1, 2019
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Nigeria HAS NOT Won Over 700 Medals In The Last 3 year: Why The Sports Minister’s Claim Is Likely To Be False!

Although, there is no available public data to give the aggregate of the medals won by Nigeria in the last…
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Politics

Yusuf AkinpeluMarch 12, 2019
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How Correct Are Donald Duke’s Figures on Nigeria’s Population and Economic Growth?

CLAIM 1: Donald Duke, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) said Nigeria’s population growth rate is “3.2%…
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Mainstream

Yusuf AkinpeluMarch 8, 2019
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YES, Nigeria is Africa’s Number One Rice Producer But…

While it is true that Nigeria is currently Africa’s foremost producer of rice, Nigeria didn’t attain this height because she…
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Elections

Yusuf AkinpeluMarch 5, 2019
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No! The EU, ECOWAS Did Not Praise Nigeria’s 2019 Elections

CLAIM: Using infographics, purveyors of fake news claimed that Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a former Liberian President and head of the ECOWAS…
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Analysis

Yusuf AkinpeluFebruary 20, 2019
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Looking Beyond The Headlines #1: Did The APC, In 2015, Promise To Equal One Dollar To One Naira?

So we may be correct to ask: if sacrificing undue traffic for telling the truth would avert the double trouble…
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Elections

Yusuf AkinpeluFebruary 14, 2019
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Did Nigeria Get More Foreign Direct Investments Under PDP Than APC?

PDP administration holds the record of securing the highest FDI earnings (in 2011). However, while it is true that PDP…
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Elections

Yusuf AkinpeluFebruary 14, 2019
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Did A Report Show That Buhari Would Win The Election?

The President of Ballard Partners denies ever conducting a survey or publishing a report, and so does Claire, an employee…
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