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Fact Check
Fact-checking six major claims in Tinubu’s Independence Day speech
“We inherited a reserve of over $33 billion 16 months ago….Despite all these, we have managed to keep our foreign reserve at $37 billion.”
Independence Day
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Featured
Nigeria@60: A fight for the supremacy of facts
True or false? It’s rarely that simple, in politics, business, media, and even everyday life.
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Analysis
Nigeria@60: How true is claim that Flora Shaw, British journalist, coined the name Nigeria?
… ‘Nigeria’ suggested 123yrs ago for ‘Niger Area’ … ‘Niger Area’ named ‘Nigeria’ 106yrs ago
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Analysis
Nigeria@60: How true is claim that Portuguese were first Europeans to Berth in Nigeria?
Though Nigeria was a colony of Britain, there have been recurrent historical claims that the Portuguese were the first Europeans to berth in the country, and that the “country” was first “discovered in the 1470’s by Portuguese adventurers”.
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Analysis
Nigeria@60: How wealthy was Nigeria before Crude oil exploration?
The acclaimed tenet of a once 'Crudeless' and dominant Nigerian economy
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Economy
How Accurate Is Buhari’s Claim About The Price Of Crude Oil Between 1999 And 2014?
The president’s claim that crude oil was selling for $100 per barrel between 1999 and 2014 is FALSE as available data showed that the figure is $61.7 per barrel. Nevertheless, it was confirmed that Nigeria’s oil production figure is an average of 2.1m barrels per day.
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