Elections

#QuickChecks: Bayelsa & Kogi Elections Kogi-Bayelsa-poll

#QuickChecks: Bayelsa & Kogi Elections

Dubawa November 16, 2019

Twitter user claimed that Yahaya Bello paid thugs to assassinate Governor Makinde. We can confirm that “hooded...

PDP Has Not Been Ruled Out From Bayelsa Primaries PDP-1

PDP Has Not Been Ruled Out From Bayelsa Primaries

Temilade Onilede November 15, 2019

A Twitter user claimed that PDP Nigeria will not run in the Bayelsa 2019 election. PDP is...

Governor Yahaya- Best In “Security Programme”? Not Exactly Governor-Bello-1280x720

Governor Yahaya- Best In “Security Programme”? Not Exactly

Lateef Sanni November 15, 2019

Twitter user claims Gov Yahaya Bello was awarded the best governor in security programme. In 2017, the...

NO, INEC Boss Did Not Beg Nigerians INEC

NO, INEC Boss Did Not Beg Nigerians

Ibraheem Alawode August 4, 2019

CLAIM: “I Have Learnt My Lessons, I Will Conduct Better Elections In 2023 – INEC Chairman Begs Nigerians”...

INEC Chairman’s Claims: What’s True and What’s Not? Prof-Mahmood-Yakub

INEC Chairman’s Claims: What’s True and What’s Not?

Ijeoma Okereke July 25, 2019

CLAIM 1: Some countries campaign till the day of election CONCLUSION: TRUE CLAIM 2: No European country...

Is There Going To Be Another Presidential Election? #NO INEC

Is There Going To Be Another Presidential Election? #NO

Temilade Onilede July 17, 2019

CLAIM: Court gives Buhari 5 days to vacate Aso-Rock for a new presidential election to be conducted...

What’s The Truth About INEC’s Election Server? INEC

What’s The Truth About INEC’s Election Server?

Adejumo Kabir June 24, 2019

CLAIMS: PDP and Atiku Abubakar claim that there was an electoral server which contains accurate figures of...

No! Rev. King ‘On Death Row’ wasn’t a Presidential Candidate during the 2019 polls rev-king-realgist

No! Rev. King ‘On Death Row’ wasn’t a Presidential Candidate during the 2019 polls

Emmanuel Bagudu April 24, 2019

CLAIM: Condemned prisoner on the death row, Reverend Emeka King was a presidential candidate in the March...

Post-Election Fact-checking Analysis #2: How Misinformation Shaped the 2019 Elections facts_157132520

Post-Election Fact-checking Analysis #2: How Misinformation Shaped the 2019 Elections

Yusuf Akinpelu April 2, 2019

We are still dealing with the aftermath of the election and trying to understand how misinformation spreads...

Post-Election Factchecking Analysis #1: Identifying Fake News Propagators facts_157132520

Post-Election Factchecking Analysis #1: Identifying Fake News Propagators

Ibraheem Alawode April 2, 2019

Elections are over but fake news [henceforth we will refer to fake news as misinformation] is not...

#QuickChecks: Bayelsa & Kogi Elections

PDP Has Not Been Ruled Out From Bayelsa Primaries

Governor Yahaya- Best In “Security Programme”? Not Exactly

NO, INEC Boss Did Not Beg Nigerians

INEC Chairman’s Claims: What’s True and What’s Not?

Is There Going To Be Another Presidential Election? #NO

What’s The Truth About INEC’s Election Server?

No! Rev. King ‘On Death Row’ wasn’t a Presidential Candidate during the 2019 polls

Post-Election Fact-checking Analysis #2: How Misinformation Shaped the 2019 Elections

Post-Election Factchecking Analysis #1: Identifying Fake News Propagators

Economy

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No evidence viral video shows Zamfara residents fleeing bandit attack, recent

Old video of abducted Kano Police Academy official reshared as recent

False! Jagaban is not dead