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Yusuf Akinpelu

Yusuf Akinpelu loves stories and he tells them for DUBAWA, having tested them against available facts. He is a graduate of Statistics from the University of Ibadan, where he won the 2019 Youth Digest Campus Journalism Award of the Best News Writer, and 2018 UCJUI Award for Campus Journalist of the year. Occasionally, he writes satires. He has interest in human rights and believes in the Nigerian Project.
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Analysis

Google is a good source but you have to be smart when using it.

Yusuf Akinpelu · 5 views · Jan 25, 2019

Google is a good source but you have to be smart when using it.
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Featured

Will Using A Mobile Phone Close To Filling Stations Make It Explode or Ignite Fire? NOT AT ALL!

Yusuf Akinpelu · 3 views · Jan 22, 2019

Will Using A Mobile Phone Close To Filling Stations Make It Explode or Ignite Fire? NOT AT ALL!
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Education

The Minister of Education got it all wrong to have said one in every three Nigerian is illiterate

Yusuf Akinpelu · 3 views · Jan 17, 2019

The Minister of Education got it all wrong to have said one in every three Nigerian is illiterate
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Featured

FALSE: El-Rufai was not awarded N4m damages and detained in 2014

Yusuf Akinpelu · 4 views · Nov 26, 2018

FALSE: El-Rufai was not awarded N4m damages and detained in 2014
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Featured

Has Job Loss Been Peculiar To Just The Buhari-led Government, As Claimed By Reno Omokri?

Yusuf Akinpelu · 5 views · Sep 5, 2018

Has Job Loss Been Peculiar To Just The Buhari-led Government, As Claimed By Reno Omokri?

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