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Twitter Blue: New leadership steering into more revenue-generating tendencies, leaving users with uncertainties

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Twitter Blue: New leadership steering into more revenue-generating tendencies, leaving users with uncertainties

Cole Praise May 3, 2023 0

In 2022, before billionaire and technocrat Elon Musk took over Twitter, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) had...

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Matar da ke shan tabar Hookah a hoton da ke yawo ba ‘yar takarar gwamnar jihar Legas a inuwar LP ba ce kamar yadda ake zargi

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Matar da ke shan tabar Hookah a hoton da ke yawo ba ‘yar takarar gwamnar jihar Legas a inuwar LP ba ce kamar yadda ake zargi

Lois Ugbede, Christiana Amodu-Otinyia May 1, 2023 0

Zargi: “Hoton matar da ya bazu ko’ina a soshiyal mediya tana shan tabar hookah ‘yar takarar mataimakiyar...

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Fact-Check: Viral Achraf Hakimi – Hiba Abouk divorce settlement posts fake

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Fact-Check: Viral Achraf Hakimi – Hiba Abouk divorce settlement posts fake

Jonas Nyabor April 26, 2023 7

Claim: Numerous reports on social media, as well as some online platforms, says the wife of PSG...

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Inquirer Newspaper Managing Editor’s statement that radio invention precedes newspaper is untrue!

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Inquirer Newspaper Managing Editor’s statement that radio invention precedes newspaper is untrue!

Gloria Wleh April 14, 2023 0

Claim: The Managing Editor of the Inquirer Newspaper claimed that “radio was the first before newspapers came...

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Ǹjẹ́ òtítọ́ ni wípé ìjọba Dubai ń fún àwọn ènìyàn ní owó ìrànwọ́ fún ààwẹ̀ Ramadan?

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Ǹjẹ́ òtítọ́ ni wípé ìjọba Dubai ń fún àwọn ènìyàn ní owó ìrànwọ́ fún ààwẹ̀ Ramadan?

Elizabeth Ogunbamowo April 14, 2023 0

Aheso: Atẹjade kan ti àwọn ènìyàn ń pin káàkiri lori WhatsApp sọ wípé ìjọba Dubai ń fún...

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The controversial proportional representation system in Sierra Leone and matters arising

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The controversial proportional representation system in Sierra Leone and matters arising

Dubawa April 12, 2023 0

By: Fayia Junior Moseray and Julian Koroma Introduction  With barely three months to Sierra Leone’s presidential and...

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Old video from Nigeria used to make ‘homosexuality’ claim in Uganda

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Old video from Nigeria used to make ‘homosexuality’ claim in Uganda

Muktar Balogun April 11, 2023 0

Claim: A Twitter user shared a video of a young man beaten for allegedly being gay in...

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Is media freedom under threat? 

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Is media freedom under threat? 

Mariam Sankanu April 5, 2023 0

In a recent article by The Standard Newspaper, Lamin Queen Jammeh, The Gambia’s Information Minister, stated that...

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Dubai government not giving Ramadan relief funds as claimed in viral WhatsApp message

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Dubai government not giving Ramadan relief funds as claimed in viral WhatsApp message

Muktar Balogun April 3, 2023 0

Claim: A viral WhatsApp message claims that the government of Dubai is giving out $110 as a...

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US Envoy’s comment about disinformation from some Liberians in US not fake 

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US Envoy’s comment about disinformation from some Liberians in US not fake 

Varney Dukuly April 3, 2023 0

Claim: “The purported letter from U.S Ambassador McCarthy accusing Liberians in the USA of spreading information is...

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