Viral video of woman mourning deceased family member unrelated to recent Jos killing 

Claim: X user shared the video of a woman mourning her family in the aftermath of the recent Jos killings.

Verdict: Misleading! The video is old. It is from a documentary by Chude Jidenowo in December 2025. 

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For more than two decades, Plateau State in Nigeria’s Middle Belt has continued to experience recurring violence, where these cycles have repeatedly claimed lives and displaced communities. 

On Sunday, Mar. 29, 2026, gunmen attacked the Gari Ya Waye community in Jos, killing at least 20 people, according to residents and local authorities. Residents said ​the gunmen arrived in the Gari Ya Waye community of ​Angwan Rukuba district and shot at people indiscriminately.

On March 30, 2026,  an X user, SIZWE-BANSI (@SizweBansii), shared a video (archived link) showing a woman mourning. The user claimed that the woman lost her son and husband in the recent killings in Jos, Plateau State. 

In the nearly two-minute video, the woman is wailing on the bare ground while Chude Jideonwo, a Nigerian TV host, filmmaker and media entrepreneur, asks questions to understand the situation.

The post was accompanied by the caption: “Her son and husband have just been murdered by Islamic terrorists in Jos, Nigeria. Christian communities in Nigeria have been ravaged by Islamic terrorists, and many innocent lives have been lost. How much longer can the world tolerate this satanic Islam?”

As of Mar 30, 2026, the video had garnered over 489,000 views, 22,000 likes, 11,000 reposts, and more than 1,000 comments. 

A.Paul (@embracelovetv) reacting to the video wrote, “Oh God, have mercy on this woman and all the other families and bring comfort beyond human understanding. This is too much to bear for her.”

Another user, king wings (@wings_6070), also wrote sympathetically, “Her husband. Her son. Gone in a moment in Jos. This is more than news, it’s a lifetime of grief.

Innocent blood keeps being spilled. When does it end?” 

Given the sensitive nature of the claim and its rapid spread, DUBAWA verified the video’s authenticity and context.

Verification 

To verify the authenticity of the video, DUBAWA conducted a keyword search to see if credible media organisations have reported the news, but found no credible reports linking the viral video to the recent Jos attack. 

We extracted Keyframes from the video and subjected them to reverse image searches using Google Images and InVID. 

The results led us to Chude’s YouTube page, which showed that the footage is not new and has circulated online before the March 2026 killings in Jos.  We traced earlier versions of the video to Dec. 12, 2025. 

Chude had done a documentary in December when he visited Plateau State to investigate if there was really Christian genocide in Northern Nigeria.

While multiple news outlets have reported the attack in Jos, none of the reports includes visuals matching the viral footage.

Conclusion 

Our findings show that the viral video is misleading. It is an old clip recirculated with a false narrative linking it to the recent violence in Plateau State.