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Some people believe sleeping under insecticide treated bed net is harmful but how true is this? mosquito net

Some people believe sleeping under insecticide treated bed net is harmful but how true is this?

Atinuke Seun-Ige October 29, 2020

Claim: Several people believe that sleeping under a mosquito bed net treated with insecticide (or not treated)...

Again, Nigerians congratulate Okonjo-Iweala on landing WTO job but she’s not appointed yet

Atinuke Seun-Ige October 29, 2020

Claim: Media reports and social media users claimed that Dr. Okonjo-Iweala has emerged as the first female...

Viral Video suggesting ASUU chairman was slapped is FALSE Biodun-Ogunyemi-320x240

Viral Video suggesting ASUU chairman was slapped is FALSE

Samad Uthman October 28, 2020

CLAIM: That ASUU and federal government meeting ended in an altercation, and ASUU chairman, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi,...

Picture claiming Queen Elizabeth wrote condolence letter to Nigeria over Buhari’s death resurfaces, but FALSE buhari-queen-Queen-Elizabeth-II

Picture claiming Queen Elizabeth wrote condolence letter to Nigeria over Buhari’s death resurfaces, but FALSE

Samad Uthman October 28, 2020

CLAIM: The Queen of the United Kingdom, Her Royal Majesty, Elizabeth II wrote a condolence letter to...

Are 63% of young Nigerians jobless or underemployed as claimed recently? unemployment

Are 63% of young Nigerians jobless or underemployed as claimed recently?

Francis Arinze Iloani October 27, 2020

Claim: A twitter user, Ian Bremmer, claims that 63 percent of Nigerians under 30 are jobless or...

#WhereisBuhari: Again, social media claim Nigeria’s president is dead, with ‘evidence’

Silas Jonathan October 26, 2020

The #EndSARS protests in Nigeria will, beyond any skepticism, remain a significant episode in the chronology of...

Research: Mapping the relationship between newsrooms and factchecking organizations weekly newsletter

Research: Mapping the relationship between newsrooms and factchecking organizations

Dubawa October 26, 2020

By Raji Rasaki There is little or no debate as to whether information disorder has become endemic...

#EndSars: Was The Adekunle Police Station in Yaba Set Ablaze? police

#EndSars: Was The Adekunle Police Station in Yaba Set Ablaze?

Michelle Agoh October 24, 2020

Claim: TVC news as well as other social media users had reported that the Adekunle Police Station...

Is it true that prolonged exposure to the sun can cause Malaria? exposure to sun

Is it true that prolonged exposure to the sun can cause Malaria?

Atinuke Seun-Ige October 24, 2020

Claim: According to a study undertaken in 30 locations by the Côte d’Ivoire Red Cross in December...

#EndSARS: Video used to portray Obasanjo running away from Nigeria Obasanjo-1-1

#EndSARS: Video used to portray Obasanjo running away from Nigeria

Lateef Sanni October 23, 2020

Claim: Twitter user, @Skygirl_Angie, published a video with the claim that Obasanjo is running out of the...

Some people believe sleeping under insecticide treated bed net is harmful but how true is this?

Again, Nigerians congratulate Okonjo-Iweala on landing WTO job but she’s not appointed yet

Viral Video suggesting ASUU chairman was slapped is FALSE

Picture claiming Queen Elizabeth wrote condolence letter to Nigeria over Buhari’s death resurfaces, but FALSE

Are 63% of young Nigerians jobless or underemployed as claimed recently?

#WhereisBuhari: Again, social media claim Nigeria’s president is dead, with ‘evidence’

#EndSars: Was The Adekunle Police Station in Yaba Set Ablaze?

Is it true that prolonged exposure to the sun can cause Malaria?

#EndSARS: Video used to portray Obasanjo running away from Nigeria

Economy

Altered video of python at Okomo farm plantation misleads many

False! FG did not announce N300bn to expand two time zones in Nigeria

False! Nigerian Army did not arrest 488 Boko Haram members in Abia

Double promotion letter from Federal University, Ado-Ekiti, false