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Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on 2021 Budget Proposal

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Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on 2021 Budget Proposal

Nurudeen Lawal October 16, 2020 0

Nigeria’s Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has issued a statement critiquing the 2021 Budget Proposal. The statement...

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Quick Checks: Misleading Claims from the Ondo 2020 Election

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Quick Checks: Misleading Claims from the Ondo 2020 Election

Dubawa October 15, 2020 0

CLAIM: A twitter user @Iyanuoluwa, in a video, claimed that thugs working for the APC candidate, Rotimi...

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Quick Checks: False Claims from the Ondo 2020 Election

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Quick Checks: False Claims from the Ondo 2020 Election

Dubawa October 15, 2020 0

Claim: a viral Mobile message posing as INEC, sent via 335 claims that the Ondo State PDP...

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Quick Checks: Ondo 2020 Election

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Quick Checks: Ondo 2020 Election

Dubawa October 15, 2020 0

Claim: APC asks court to disqualify Akeredolu 24 hours to election Source: Twitter user, October 10, 2020...

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SARS has been in existence since 1992, not a creation of PDP as claimed by APC scribe

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SARS has been in existence since 1992, not a creation of PDP as claimed by APC scribe

Taiwo Fatola October 14, 2020 0

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, tweeted that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)...

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#EndSARS: Voting with stern voices, young people in Nigeria expel a dreaded police unit

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#EndSARS: Voting with stern voices, young people in Nigeria expel a dreaded police unit

Silas Jonathan October 14, 2020 1

Recently, the hashtag #EndSARS, and related others calling for an end to police brutality in Nigeria became...

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ASUU parody account engages Nigerian students in insensitive tweet

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ASUU parody account engages Nigerian students in insensitive tweet

Qosim Suleiman October 12, 2020 0

The Vanguard Newspaper published a story on Thursday, October 8, that the Academic Staff Union of Universities...

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Zamfara gold deposit belongs to federal government, not state

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Zamfara gold deposit belongs to federal government, not state

Francis Arinze Iloani October 12, 2020 0

A twitter user claimed that gold deposits in Zamfara State belong to Zamfara State while Niger Delta...

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Cure Myths and False Ratings Lead COVID-19 Fact-Checks in Nigeria, With Governments as Most Targeted Entities

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Cure Myths and False Ratings Lead COVID-19 Fact-Checks in Nigeria, With Governments as Most Targeted Entities

Raheemat Adeniran October 12, 2020 0

Executive Summary In this piece, we examined 203 coronavirus-related fact-checks published by Dubawa and Africa Check since...

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Research: Media Organisations on the Frontline of Combating Information Disorder in Nigeria

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Research: Media Organisations on the Frontline of Combating Information Disorder in Nigeria

Dubawa October 12, 2020 0

By Folarin Jamiu In August, Dubawa published the first part of a two-series research paper that essentially...

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