Une organisation f\u00e9ministe publie des informations trompeuses sur les jeunes filles s\u00e9n\u00e9galaises ( absent\u00e9isme scolaire, gestion des r\u00e8gles<\/a>)\u201d Drame\u2019s work in English translates to \u201cFeminist organization publishes misleading information about Senegalese girls (school absenteeism, rule management.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nA Nigerian journalist, Oluwaseye Ogunsanya, emerged runner up in this category with the entry, \u201cDid Nigeria\u2019s Minister Of Education Announce Resumption of Schools On September 7?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taiwo Adebulu, a Nigerian journalist, has won the 2020 African fact-checking awards. His story, “FACT CHECK: Nigeria told UN that 7 varsities run strictly on renewable energy, but is this true?” was rated as the best among 192 entries from 27 countries across the continent. Adebulu, a reporter with TheCable, an online newspaper, had investigated how Nigeria’s minister of environment had grossly misinformed the United Nations at its Climate Action Summit in 2019 . In a ceremony that held on Thursday as part of the virtual African Investigative Journalism Conference, Africa Check, organisers of the competition, said the impressive entries submitted for the 2020 awards show the growing and vibrant practice of fact-checking on the continent. \u201cIn what has been a year like no other, we\u2019ve received the highest number of entries in the history of the African Fact-Checking Awards: 192 entries from 27 countries across Africa,\u201d the organisers said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from strength to strength since our inaugural awards in 2014, when we had about 40 entries from 10 countries. This growth can only be a wonderful advertisement for the growing & vibrant practice of fact-checking on the continent.\u201d Speaking on the award, Noko Makgato, executive director at Africa Check, said the competition will strengthen the quality of public debate and, hopefully, improve the quality of life across the continent. “With health-related decisions sometimes being a matter of life or death, good fact-checking journalism is vital \u2013 now more than ever,\u201d Makgato said. \u201cThe quality of information disseminated in public can determine the life outcomes of many and so it is the responsibility of the media to refrain from being conduits of misinformation.” Adebulu, who holds a master\u2019s degree in communication arts from the University of Ibadan, is also a recipient of the 2020 BudgIT\/Civic Hive media fellowship. In Adebulu\u2019s category, Aisha Abdool Karim emerged runner up with the entry, \u201cThe coronavirus \u2018vaccine\u2019 Ekurhuleni wants to import doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d In the student category, Mari\u00e8me Fatou Dram\u00e9 won with the entry \u201cUne organisation f\u00e9ministe publie des informations trompeuses sur les jeunes filles s\u00e9n\u00e9galaises ( absent\u00e9isme scolaire, gestion des r\u00e8gles)\u201d Drame\u2019s work in English translates to \u201cFeminist organization publishes misleading information about Senegalese girls (school absenteeism, rule management.\u201d A Nigerian journalist, Oluwaseye Ogunsanya, emerged runner up in this category with the entry, \u201cDid Nigeria\u2019s Minister Of Education Announce Resumption of Schools On September 7?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6649,"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":[1576],"tags":[130,1627],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[873],"class_list":["post-6648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-fact-checking","tag-taiwo-adebulu"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-1Je","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":873,"user_id":10,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dubawa","display_name":"Dubawa","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f70a877f6d81734de0ca299eabb33d20687f41f5a4cb83ae8d754fc9412ee293?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":"Strengthening Investigative Journalism for the fight against corruption in Nigeria."}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Taiwo-Adebulu.png?fit=1185%2C787&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}