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#EndSARS Protests: Fact Checkers rate at least 45 claims as False, Misleading

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#EndSARS Protests: Fact Checkers rate at least 45 claims as False, Misleading

Folarin Jamiu December 15, 2020 0

Summary With 48 million tweets from 5 million users in 10 days (October 5th to 14th, 2020),...

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Video Of Boko Haram Capturing Soldiers Not Recent

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Video Of Boko Haram Capturing Soldiers Not Recent

Kunle Adebajo December 9, 2020 0

Claim: Boko Haram released a video of its fighters capturing and beheading Nigerian soldiers. Misleading as the...

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Police chief’s claim that Nigeria Police is least corrupt agency false

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Police chief’s claim that Nigeria Police is least corrupt agency false

Ifedayo Ogunyemi December 8, 2020 0

CLAIM: Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said police is the least corrupt government...

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Viral quote claiming Lai Mohammed threatening the US, UK and the EU is fake

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Viral quote claiming Lai Mohammed threatening the US, UK and the EU is fake

Steve Dede December 8, 2020 0

Claim: A quote that Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, warned the United States, United Kingdom, and...

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Weapon import denial not reason Nigeria is at terrorists’ mercy

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Weapon import denial not reason Nigeria is at terrorists’ mercy

Francis Arinze Iloani December 8, 2020 0

Claim: The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, recently claimed that Nigeria has remained at the...

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Data shows Yahaya Bello lied that APC led Gov’t is securing Nigeria

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Data shows Yahaya Bello lied that APC led Gov’t is securing Nigeria

Samad Uthman December 8, 2020 0

“APC has come to stay. We are developing the country, the people are happy with our programmes,...

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Fact-checking claims Nigeria is second most terrorised country, global poverty capital

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Fact-checking claims Nigeria is second most terrorised country, global poverty capital

Nurudeen Lawal December 2, 2020 1

Claim: Farooq Kperogi, an associate professor of journalism, claimed in a tweet that “Nigeria is d 2nd...

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Is Nigeria Country With Most Christians Killed For Their Faith?

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Is Nigeria Country With Most Christians Killed For Their Faith?

Kunle Adebajo November 29, 2020 0

‘Kunle Adebajo Claim: Nigeria is ranked the number one country according to the population of people killed...

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10 Photos Used to Depict Obigbo Victims Are From Osun, Lagos, Others

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10 Photos Used to Depict Obigbo Victims Are From Osun, Lagos, Others

Kunle Adebajo November 28, 2020 1

Claim: A Facebook group shared 10 photographs, which it said were about the killing and brutalising of...

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How true is Lai Mohammed’s claim blank ammunition cannot kill anyone?

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How true is Lai Mohammed’s claim blank ammunition cannot kill anyone?

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi November 26, 2020 0

Claim: Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, has claimed that soldiers who attacked unarmed protesters used blank ammunition, and...

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