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Fact-checking Ondo PDP Youths Claims On Governor Aiyedatiwa’s Performance

The council of Young Leaders groups under the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, made several claims about Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the incumbent Ondo governor and candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Saturday’s gubernatorial election. The group claimed that Aiyedatiwa’s administration has failed to perform in the 10 months since he was sworn in as governor.  In […]

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Did the Appeal Court Judges Who Declared Tinubu Winner of the 2023 Election Die On The Same Day?

On November 11, an X user @Tobi_sneh0147 posted a claim that Justices Misitura Bolaji-Yusuff and Boloukuromo Moses Ugo, of the Nigerian Court of Appeal are dead.  @Tobisneh0147 posted the picture of the two judges with the caption: “Breaking News: Two Nigerian judges who declared Tinubu winner in 2023 presidential election found dead in their homes […]

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Did a Man Assault and Threaten Teachers in a Lagos School?

A video purportedly showing a man assaulting and threatening teachers in a classroom is making rounds on LinkedIn.  This video was posted by a LinkedIn user identified as Titilayo Mafikuyomi on October 17, 2024. The 46-seconds footage showed a man assaulting a female teacher when another female rushed to the scene to intervene and mediate, […]

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CLAIM: Teenager Kills 4-Year-Old Boy Over N50,000 In Lagos

Yunusa Umar An image showing a teenager carrying the corpse of a beheaded 4-year-old boy in Lagos State, Nigeria was posted by an X account, @MadukaOgwueleka on September, 16, 2024.  The poster claimed that the image depicted a breaking story of a ritual killing from “Yourbaland” that morning.  “ANOTHER BREAKING RITUAL KILLING NEWS FROM YORUBALAND […]

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CLAIM: Residents of a South-East Community in Nigeria Flee From IPOB Attack

CLAIM: A video circulating online shows thousands of residents walking on streets with the claim that these are residents in a South-East community fleeing from attacks of  Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. 

VERDICT: The claim that the video shows the IPOB attack in the South-East community is MISLEADING, though findings show that the video was from Eha-Amufu community in Enugu, a southeastern state in Nigeria but the purported attack was from November 2022.

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