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Peter Obi won four area councils NOT six in Abuja Peter-Obi-1

Peter Obi won four area councils NOT six in Abuja

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 28, 2023

CLAIM: A Facebook user, Sagacious Bello Lukman, claims that the Labour Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi won...

False! INEC yet to announce winner of Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential election

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 28, 2023

CLAIM: A Facebook user, Dan Yusufa, claims Tinubu is the 16th President of Nigeria after securing 25%...

False! No protest at INEC’s Abuja office INEC office Abj

False! No protest at INEC’s Abuja office

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 28, 2023

CLAIM: Social media users claimed that a protest was staged at the INEC office in Abuja on...

True, Kano elections results uploaded for Kaduna polling unit on IReV

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 28, 2023

CLAIM: Social media users claim that INEC uploaded election results from Kano for Kaduna Polling Unit on...

TRUE! INEC suspended elections in some parts of Bayelsa 2023 presidential election

TRUE! INEC suspended elections in some parts of Bayelsa

Lademi Aborisade February 28, 2023

Claim: A Facebook user claimed that INEC had suspended elections in Yenagoa, Esan north, Esan south, and...

LIVE FACT-CHECK: Nigerian fact-checkers monitor mis/disinformation as collation continues – DAY 4

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 28, 2023

Claim 22 CLAIM: A Facebook user, Dan Yusufa, claims Tinubu is the 16th President of Nigeria after...

Viral Premium Times graphics manipulated PT dashboard

Viral Premium Times graphics manipulated

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 27, 2023

CLAIM: A Twitter user, Senior man (@her_genie), made a post with a pictorial chart of Premium Times’...

False! Shops not set ablaze at Lapido market Ladipo-market

False! Shops not set ablaze at Lapido market

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 27, 2023

CLAIM: A post shared on Facebook claimed that thugs had set fire to shops owned by Igbo...

True, newly elected lawmaker Ibrahim Bello Muhammad, youngest in Nigeria’s history Ondo State PDP election results is the worst in the history of the State

Ondo State PDP election results is the worst in the history of the State

True, newly elected lawmaker Ibrahim Bello Muhammad, youngest in Nigeria’s history

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 27, 2023

CLAIM: A Twitter user, @NajibHaruna_, claimed that Ibrahim Bello Muhammad, 27, the newly elected House of Reps...

True! Image posted on INEC’s IReV for Ekiti not result sheet Image uploaded not result

True! Image posted on INEC’s IReV for Ekiti not result sheet

Nigerian Fact-checkers' Coalition February 27, 2023

CLAIM: Social media users say the image uploaded on INEC’s IReV for Ekiti polling unit, not the...

Peter Obi won four area councils NOT six in Abuja

False! INEC yet to announce winner of Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential election

False! No protest at INEC’s Abuja office

True, Kano elections results uploaded for Kaduna polling unit on IReV

TRUE! INEC suspended elections in some parts of Bayelsa

LIVE FACT-CHECK: Nigerian fact-checkers monitor mis/disinformation as collation continues – DAY 4

Viral Premium Times graphics manipulated

False! Shops not set ablaze at Lapido market

True, newly elected lawmaker Ibrahim Bello Muhammad, youngest in Nigeria’s history

True! Image posted on INEC’s IReV for Ekiti not result sheet

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