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#EndSARS: The Trend And Threat Of Fake Social Media Accounts

Kunle Adebajo October 27, 2020

There are 33 million active monthly users of Facebook in Nigeria. There are also many millions of...

#WhereisBuhari: Again, social media claim Nigeria’s president is dead, with ‘evidence’

Silas Jonathan October 26, 2020

The #EndSARS protests in Nigeria will, beyond any skepticism, remain a significant episode in the chronology of...

#EndSARS: This viral photo is from an NYSC drama in Akwa Ibom, not Lekki Tollgate gun attack

Steve Dede October 23, 2020

Claim: The viral photo of a man carrying what seems like a dead body draped in the...

#EndSars: Viral video suggesting Tinubu was chased out of France is a hoax

Silas Jonathan October 23, 2020

Claim: a Facebook user shared a video, claiming that Bola Ahmed Tinubu was chased out of France...

Catholic bishops did not hold #EndSARS prayer walk bishops

Catholic bishops did not hold #EndSARS prayer walk

Francis Arinze Iloani October 22, 2020

Claim: A facebook user, Chukwudi Ufondu, shared a photo claiming that the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria...

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#EndSARS: Is there provision for the UN to intervene if ongoing protests last 30 days?

Silas Jonathan, Benedicta Akpede October 21, 2020

Claim: a user on Twitter claims that the United Nations constitution stipulates it to intervene in any...

#EndSARS: A Little History and More weekly newsletter

#EndSARS: A Little History and More

Dubawa October 19, 2020

By Silas Jonathan Recently, the hashtag #EndSARS, #EndSWAT and others – calling for an end to police...

Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on 2021 Budget Proposal atiku

Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on 2021 Budget Proposal

Nurudeen Lawal October 16, 2020

Nigeria’s Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has issued a statement critiquing the 2021 Budget Proposal. The statement...

SARS has been in existence since 1992, not a creation of PDP as claimed by APC scribe

Taiwo Fatola October 14, 2020

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, tweeted that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)...

#EndSARS: Voting with stern voices, young people in Nigeria expel a dreaded police unit

Silas Jonathan October 14, 2020

Recently, the hashtag #EndSARS, and related others calling for an end to police brutality in Nigeria became...

#WhereisBuhari: Again, social media claim Nigeria’s president is dead, with ‘evidence’

#EndSARS: This viral photo is from an NYSC drama in Akwa Ibom, not Lekki Tollgate gun attack

#EndSars: Viral video suggesting Tinubu was chased out of France is a hoax

Catholic bishops did not hold #EndSARS prayer walk

#EndSARS: Is there provision for the UN to intervene if ongoing protests last 30 days?

Fact-Checking Atiku’s Claims on 2021 Budget Proposal

SARS has been in existence since 1992, not a creation of PDP as claimed by APC scribe

#EndSARS: Voting with stern voices, young people in Nigeria expel a dreaded police unit

Economy

Electricity subsidy removal, heart disease remedy, other claims fact-checked this week

Viral claim about ‘Hisbah chief with police ADC,’ misleading

Contrary to Obi’s claim, FG has not removed electricity subsidy

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