{"id":16920,"date":"2023-12-03T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=16920"},"modified":"2023-12-03T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:19:20","slug":"ghana-must-go-ban-issued-by-ethiopian-airline-not-faan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/ghana-must-go-ban-issued-by-ethiopian-airline-not-faan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana-must-go ban issued by Ethiopian Airline, not FAAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim<\/strong>: FAAN bans Ghana-must-go bags.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Verdict<\/strong>: MISLEADING. FAAN has distanced itself from the development, noting the ban came from Ethiopian Airlines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, news that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) had banned the use of matted woven, popularly called Ghana-must-go bags, was published by Arise News<\/a>, Leadership<\/a>, Daily Post Nigeria<\/a>, the Guardian Nigeria<\/a>, amongst other platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These news platforms credited this development to a signed circular titled \u201cRe: Prohibition of Usage Of Ghana Must Go\u201d by the Airport Services Manager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA decided to verify the assertion to prevent misinformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We carried out an advanced Google Search using keywords and search modifiers and also visited FAAN\u2019s website<\/a> for the report but found nothing of such nature.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then checked FAAN\u2019s official X account (@FAAN_Official) and found a post where the airport authority distanced itself from the said ban, clarifying<\/a> the ban was from Ethiopian Airlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attached to this post is the image of the circular by Ethiopian Airlines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image of the circular by Ethiopian Airline shared by FAAN.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Seeking the primary source of this circular, we visited the airline’s website and its official X account, Ethiopian Airline (@flyethopian), but did not find this circular. We further conducted a reverse image search on the copy shared by FAAN, but this only led to other unrelated brochures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We conducted another keyword search on Ethiopian Airlines and the ban, revealing that other news platforms, like Punch Newspaper<\/a> and The Cable<\/a>, had reported this development, crediting it to Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to both reports, the ban was contained in a letter signed by Henok Gizachew, the airport services manager. The report revealed that the letter was addressed to the regional manager of FAAN. We also got a hold of the letter dated Nov. 24, 2023, addressed to FAAN, corroborating the report by Punch and Cable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlease be informed that effective 26th November 2023, the usage of Ghana Must Go to travel on our flight is hereby prohibited,\u201d part of the letter reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the letter.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We also observed that some platforms like Leadership<\/a> and Daily Post<\/a>, which ran with the FAAN headline earlier, had re-published in the last hour, crediting Ethiopian Airlines. This is most likely in reaction to the disclaimer by FAAN.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

News reports on the ban on Ghana-must-go bags by FAAN are misleading. FAAN has distanced itself from this development and revealed that the ban was issued by Ethiopian Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: FAAN bans Ghana-must-go bags. Verdict: MISLEADING. FAAN has distanced itself from the development, noting the ban came from Ethiopian Airlines.  Full Text  On Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, news that the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) had banned the use of matted woven, popularly called Ghana-must-go bags, was published by Arise News, Leadership, Daily Post Nigeria, the Guardian Nigeria, amongst other platforms. These news platforms credited this development to a signed circular titled \u201cRe: Prohibition of Usage Of Ghana Must Go\u201d by the Airport Services Manager.  DUBAWA decided to verify the assertion to prevent misinformation.  Verification  We carried out an advanced Google Search using keywords and search modifiers and also visited FAAN\u2019s website for the report but found nothing of such nature.\u00a0 We then checked FAAN\u2019s official X account (@FAAN_Official) and found a post where the airport authority distanced itself from the said ban, clarifying the ban was from Ethiopian Airlines.\u00a0 Attached to this post is the image of the circular by Ethiopian Airlines.  Seeking the primary source of this circular, we visited the airline’s website and its official X account, Ethiopian Airline (@flyethopian), but did not find this circular. We further conducted a reverse image search on the copy shared by FAAN, but this only led to other unrelated brochures.  We conducted another keyword search on Ethiopian Airlines and the ban, revealing that other news platforms, like Punch Newspaper and The Cable, had reported this development, crediting it to Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria.\u00a0 According to both reports, the ban was contained in a letter signed by Henok Gizachew, the airport services manager. The report revealed that the letter was addressed to the regional manager of FAAN. We also got a hold of the letter dated Nov. 24, 2023, addressed to FAAN, corroborating the report by Punch and Cable.\u00a0 \u201cPlease be informed that effective 26th November 2023, the usage of Ghana Must Go to travel on our flight is hereby prohibited,\u201d part of the letter reads. We also observed that some platforms like Leadership and Daily Post, which ran with the FAAN headline earlier, had re-published in the last hour, crediting Ethiopian Airlines. This is most likely in reaction to the disclaimer by FAAN.\u00a0 Conclusion  News reports on the ban on Ghana-must-go bags by FAAN are misleading. FAAN has distanced itself from this development and revealed that the ban was issued by Ethiopian Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1571,3812,3815,123],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[1106],"class_list":["post-16920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-mainstream"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-4oU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1106,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"lois-ugbede","display_name":"Lois Ugbede","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lois.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lois.jpg"},"author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ghana-Must-Go-bags-News-Central-TV-1.jpg?fit=500%2C281&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16922,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions\/16922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16920"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=16920"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=16920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}