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Dubawa writers, fellows shortlisted for African Fact-Checking Awards Dubawa-e1594194230485 (1)

Dubawa writers, fellows shortlisted for African Fact-Checking Awards

Lateef Sanni October 1, 2021

Some writers and fellows of West Africa independent verification platform, Dubawa, have been shortlisted as finalists for...

Nigerian media should be left to self-regulate – Olorunyomi nigerian press

Nigerian media should be left to self-regulate – Olorunyomi

Iyabode Olorunshola August 4, 2021

The Publisher of Premium Times, Dapo Olorunyomi, has identified knowledge-based policies as tool to regulate the media...

My first month as a Dubawa fellow – one to remember

Ganiyat Tijani-Adenle July 3, 2021

So, in 2020, my good friend and colleague, Dr. Raheemat Adeniran, was immersed in this fellowship and...

Studies suggest COVID-19 was recorded in the US before being detected in China

Lois Ugbede June 18, 2021

New studies suggest coronavirus (COVID-19) appeared in the U.S. as early as December 2019, weeks before cases...

17 academics for Dubawa research, post-doctoral fellowship Dubawa-e1594194230485

17 academics for Dubawa research, post-doctoral fellowship

Dubawa June 3, 2021

Seventeen academics have been selected for the 2021 research fellowship of West Africa’s fact-checking platform, Dubawa. The...

Early education panacea to growing misinformation – OSIWA’s Executive Director, Osori ayisha-osori source-Literary Everything

Early education panacea to growing misinformation – OSIWA’s Executive Director, Osori

Lois Ugbede May 21, 2021

Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), Ayisha Osori, has prescribed early education...

Dubawa kickstarts training for third cohort of fact-checking fellows Dubawa Fellowship Training

Dubawa kickstarts training for third cohort of fact-checking fellows

Roselena Ahiable, Lois Ugbede May 19, 2021

West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, Dubawa, has commenced training for its third cohort of fact-checking fellows....

Dubawa inducts 26 fact-checkers for 2021 West Africa-wide fellowship Dubawa Fellowship Dinner

Dubawa inducts 26 fact-checkers for 2021 West Africa-wide fellowship

Dubawa May 18, 2021

West Africa’s verification and fact-checking platform, Dubawa, has concluded plans to induct twenty-six (26) fellows into its...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship Dubawa-e1594194230485

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship

Dubawa April 23, 2021

KWAME KARIKARI FACT-CHECKING AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP 2021

Nigeria parliament fooled by satire website’s frivolous claim on penis export to China nigerian parliament

Nigeria parliament fooled by satire website’s frivolous claim on penis export to China

Silas Jonathan April 23, 2021

A claim that recently went viral, suggesting that over 7,200 human penises were seized from a Nigerian...

Dubawa writers, fellows shortlisted for African Fact-Checking Awards

Nigerian media should be left to self-regulate – Olorunyomi

My first month as a Dubawa fellow – one to remember

Studies suggest COVID-19 was recorded in the US before being detected in China

17 academics for Dubawa research, post-doctoral fellowship

Early education panacea to growing misinformation – OSIWA’s Executive Director, Osori

Dubawa kickstarts training for third cohort of fact-checking fellows

Dubawa inducts 26 fact-checkers for 2021 West Africa-wide fellowship

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship

Nigeria parliament fooled by satire website’s frivolous claim on penis export to China

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