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#EndSars: Viral video suggesting Tinubu was chased out of France is a hoax Tinubu

#EndSars: Viral video suggesting Tinubu was chased out of France is a hoax

Silas Jonathan October 23, 2020

Claim: a Facebook user shared a video, claiming that Bola Ahmed Tinubu was chased out of France...

Catholic bishops did not hold #EndSARS prayer walk bishops

Catholic bishops did not hold #EndSARS prayer walk

Francis Arinze Iloani October 22, 2020

Claim: A facebook user, Chukwudi Ufondu, shared a photo claiming that the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria...

#EndSARS: Is there provision for the UN to intervene if ongoing protests last 30 days? EndSARs-2-scaled-e1602839820317-2048x1152

#EndSARS: Is there provision for the UN to intervene if ongoing protests last 30 days?

Silas Jonathan, Benedicta Akpede October 21, 2020

Claim: a user on Twitter claims that the United Nations constitution stipulates it to intervene in any...

#EndSARS: A Little History and More weekly newsletter

#EndSARS: A Little History and More

Dubawa October 19, 2020

By Silas Jonathan Recently, the hashtag #EndSARS, #EndSWAT and others – calling for an end to police...

Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on 2021 Budget Proposal atiku

Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on 2021 Budget Proposal

Nurudeen Lawal October 16, 2020

Nigeria’s Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has issued a statement critiquing the 2021 Budget Proposal. The statement...

SARS has been in existence since 1992, not a creation of PDP as claimed by APC scribe

Taiwo Fatola October 14, 2020

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, tweeted that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)...

#EndSARS: Voting with stern voices, young people in Nigeria expel a dreaded police unit

Silas Jonathan October 14, 2020

Recently, the hashtag #EndSARS, and related others calling for an end to police brutality in Nigeria became...

Cure Myths and False Ratings Lead COVID-19 Fact-Checks in Nigeria, With Governments as Most Targeted Entities corona_fact_check_social_media

Cure Myths and False Ratings Lead COVID-19 Fact-Checks in Nigeria, With Governments as Most Targeted Entities

Raheemat Adeniran October 12, 2020

Executive Summary In this piece, we examined 203 coronavirus-related fact-checks published by Dubawa and Africa Check since...

Okonjo Iweala not appointed WTO DG yet Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Okonjo Iweala not appointed WTO DG yet

Qosim Suleiman October 9, 2020

An online medium ObserverTimes posted a story on its website that claims a former Nigerian Minister of...

Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on Nigeria’s Foreign Debt, GDP Growth Between 1999 and 2007

Nurudeen Lawal October 9, 2020

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, claimed Nigeria paid off her external debt between 1999 and 2007. Mr....

#EndSars: Viral video suggesting Tinubu was chased out of France is a hoax

Catholic bishops did not hold #EndSARS prayer walk

#EndSARS: Is there provision for the UN to intervene if ongoing protests last 30 days?

Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on 2021 Budget Proposal

SARS has been in existence since 1992, not a creation of PDP as claimed by APC scribe

#EndSARS: Voting with stern voices, young people in Nigeria expel a dreaded police unit

Cure Myths and False Ratings Lead COVID-19 Fact-Checks in Nigeria, With Governments as Most Targeted Entities

Okonjo Iweala not appointed WTO DG yet

Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on Nigeria’s Foreign Debt, GDP Growth Between 1999 and 2007

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Ahoro-Esinle’s repeat attack, bandit pastor’s arrest, others top claims verified last week

Video of Trump addressing Gambia as best African country, manipulated

False! 30% of CDC’s candidates in Liberia’s 2023 elections were not women

Nigeria’s population is about 242 million, not 1 billion