It’s been 11 days since Premium Times broke the news that Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, did not participate in the mandatory one-year national youth service scheme. Since then, the internet has been filled with…
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has flagged off a nationwide campaign against fake news ahead of the 2019 polls. Launched in Abuja on Wednesday, the initiative is aimed at sensitizing Nigerians on how…
The past one week has kept the mainstream and social media abuzz. The saga started with reports attributing the recent killings in Plateau State to the Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of…
In June 2015, 21-year-old Dylan Roof walked into the Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina and shot 12 bible study participants at point-blank range. Nine of them died. On Christmas Eve 2017, US…
This is an edited version of the article which was originally published on FactCheckingDay.com for International Fact-Checking Day on April 2, 2018. Of all types of misinformation, a video is among the hardest to fact-check.…