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Claim: A Facebook user shared a video purportedly showing Kano residents fighting over the rice President Bola Tinubu donated in a mosque.
Verdict: False. DUBAWA found the video is unrelated to Nigeria or a tussle over rice. The earliest post was linked to Comoros, an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa.
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As we near Nigeria’s 2027 general elections, conversations about candidates and their campaigns flood social media, and some carry misleading narratives. So far, DUBAWA has debunked some of these claims.
Amid these, a Facebook user shared a video (archived here), claiming it shows a tussle in a Kano mosque over rice donated by the Nigerian president.
A woman was shown in the background of the video, with an overlaid video of the chaotic-looking scene, while saying, “Tinubu and the APC have carried their rice to Kano. There is heavy chaos and fighting inside a mosque in Kano after Tinubu, as usual, went with their rice empowerment to the citizens. The well-meaning Nigerians rejected the rice, while the hungry APC thugs said they must accept the rice. I am happy that these people now know that this rice is not enough.”
The post’s caption read, “Happened in Kano, as APC’s hungry supporters are dragging rice. Please like, share, and comment.”
As of Oct. 18, 2026, the post had over 6,000 likes, 338 comments, 1,800 shares and 500,000 views.
DUBAWA reviewed the comments to gauge users’ thoughts. While many people believed the incident really happened, others disagreed.
@Sofia Ifije said, “Is it by force to eat rice?”
@Adebisi Dawood made an observation: “So, what are plastic chairs doing inside the mosque? Stop fooling yourself.”
@Peter Emeka added, “Nigerian’s has woken up; I think it is time we put tribalism aside and vote the right person into power so that all tribes can enjoy our dear country, Nigeria.”
The claim had been shared earlier here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Because of the claim’s sensitive nature amid politicking ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 elections, DUBAWA decided to verify it.
Verification
DUBAWA first observed that the video showed no rice, and no one appeared to be dragging or fighting over it.
So DUBAWA conducted a keyword search and found several earlier posts making the same claim, most of which were published in March 2026. This shows the narrative has circulated for months and is not new, as the October post suggests.
DUBAWA took keyframes from a clearer version of the video and ran a reverse image search on Google Images.
The search showed that the video did not start circulating in 2026. A Facebook user posted the video earlier on July 24, 2025, with the caption, “Yentsi ya Souroumanie ngue dendzawo.”
While DUBAWA could not determine the caption’s language from the wording alone, we searched Google for the caption. We found the same post reshared on a separate Facebook group titled ‘GROUPE Comores_actualités’. When translated, the group name means ‘Comoros News’.
The group belongs to a Comorian community, made up of people from or connected to Comoros, an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa.
We also ran the caption through Google Translate and confirmed it is Shikomori (Comorian), a Bantu language spoken in the Comoros archipelago. This matches the language community of the group where the caption appeared.
Although DUBAWA could not determine the full context of the video because the post did not explain it, nothing in the caption or in the group where it first appeared links the video to Nigeria, Kano State, or President Bola Tinubu.
Lastly, we searched for credible media reports of a rice tussle in a Kano mosque and found no report, official statement, or other evidence of such an incident.
Conclusion
DUBAWA’s findings show that the video is unrelated to Nigeria or a rice tussle. The earliest post was linked to a Comorian group, with a caption written in Shikomori (Comorian), a language spoken in the Comoros archipelago. The claim is, therefore, false.