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Kano govt claims its first lady did not ‘anoint’ a successor to Ganduje, but here’s what we found out

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Kano govt claims its first lady did not ‘anoint’ a successor to Ganduje, but here’s what we found out

Mohammed Dahiru Lawal August 29, 2021 2

Claim: The Kano State Government, through the Commissioner for Information, has denied stories widely reported across media platforms...

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How Google, Facebook are changing news sourcing, monitoring patterns in digital media age

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How Google, Facebook are changing news sourcing, monitoring patterns in digital media age

Rahaman Abiola August 29, 2021 0

The technological evolution over recent years has drastically ushered in a surge of massive changes in the...

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Nine things you need to know about Kaduna’s electronic voting system deployed for LG elections

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Nine things you need to know about Kaduna’s electronic voting system deployed for LG elections

Lami Sadiq August 29, 2021 0

In 2018, Kaduna State became the first state in Nigeria to conduct an election using an electronic...

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Lagos University Teaching Hospital not source of viral WhatsApp message on women’s health

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Lagos University Teaching Hospital not source of viral WhatsApp message on women’s health

Ganiyat Tijani-Adenle August 27, 2021 0

Claim: A WhatsApp message that has been forwarded many times purportedly from Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH)...

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Do 32% of Nigerians own bitcoin as Twitter CEO claimed?

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Do 32% of Nigerians own bitcoin as Twitter CEO claimed?

Elizabeth Ogunbamowo August 26, 2021 0

Claim: Jack Dorsey, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter, the microblogging platform, recently tweeted that 32%...

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Did You Know There Are Billions of Social Media Bots Designed to Mimic Humans? Here’s How to Spot Them

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Did You Know There Are Billions of Social Media Bots Designed to Mimic Humans? Here’s How to Spot Them

Mohammed Dahiru Lawal August 26, 2021 0

“Bots” — automated social media accounts which pose as real people — have a huge presence on...

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What you need to know about the 3 brands of Covid-19 vaccines deployed in Nigeria

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What you need to know about the 3 brands of Covid-19 vaccines deployed in Nigeria

Lami Sadiq August 25, 2021 1

On March 2nd, Nigeria became the third West African country to receive nearly 4million COVID-19 dosage of...

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Four questions to ask when consuming information online

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Four questions to ask when consuming information online

Funmilola Afolabi August 24, 2021 0

The information age also known as the jet age has brought a significant increase in available sources...

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Marburg virus: What you need to know about Disease recently detected in West Africa

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Marburg virus: What you need to know about Disease recently detected in West Africa

Faith Adeoye August 24, 2021 0

On Monday, August 9, 2021, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed the first case of Marburg virus...

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No evidence mixture of kerosene and Insecticide kill head lice

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No evidence mixture of kerosene and Insecticide kill head lice

Elizabeth Ogunbamowo August 24, 2021 0

Claim: Viral reports claimed home remedies such as insecticides, kerosene mixed with substances like camphor kill head...

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