Okediran Adeyemi On Thursday, December 23, 2021, a Facebook user with the name Paul Onovoh posted an image of three men on handcuff with cocaine ice before them, claiming they were Nigerian arrested for drug trafficking in Cambodia. The content written above the picture reads: “Three Nigerian men who were caught with cocaine “ice” in Cambodia has been charged […]
CLAIM: Former Governor, Gbenga Daniel Appeared in a Picture With Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka in 1969
Okediran Adeyemi On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, a Twitter user with the name Frank Justice with the username, @Talk2_Frankjay, tweeted a picture claiming former Ogun state governor, Gbenga Daniel was the one holding a kettle of water in a viral picture of Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka. The tweet read: “That is Wole Soyinka seated after his release from […]
CLAIM: African Union Commission is Relocating its Secretariat From Ethiopia
Adeyemi Okediran On Sunday, November 7, 2021, a Twitter user with the name Linda Ottori claimed that the African Union Commission’s chairperson called for the temporary relocation of the Commission and its staff from Ethiopia. The tweet read thus: “Just in. internal communication for @_AfricanUnion, staff are told to immediately leave the capital with their valuables until […]
CLAIM: Obi Cubana Poses With EFCC Officers
Adeyemi Okediran A broadcast picture went viral on social media claiming that Obi Cubana took a selfie with EFCC officers as they released him. Multiple social media handles had shared the image with the inscription that he took a selfie with the staff. CLAIM N-VA extracted the claim, “Obi Cubana Poses With EFCC Officers,” and […]
CLAIM: Abeg App is Rewarding #BBNaija Fans with 30,000 Naira
A viral broadcast message on social media platforms claimed that the major sponsor of #BBNaija Season 6, ABEG APP, is rewarding bbnaija fans with ₦30,000 cash to support them. The broadcast was shared with a web link for the fans to register in order to get the support fund. The message on the viral broadcast […]
How Religious Facebook Page Amplified COVID-19 Disinformation in Nigeria
Zainab Sanni Shayo is a fierce anti-vaxxer who has used his WhatsApp status to campaign vigorously against COVID-19 protocols and in recent times, the COVID-19 vaccine. The middle aged young man says COVID-19 is a disease planted by Bill Gates and the United Nation to destabilize the church, adding that he has concerns about the […]
CLAIM: UN Has Spoken About Nigeria’s Break-Up at a Meeting Held in Geneva
Okediran Adeyemi On Saturday, June 26, 2021, a user with a pseudo name, Joesand on the microblogging website, Twitter tweeted that, “Finally UN has spoken about Nigeria break-up, holds meeting in Geneva”, with a youtube link attached to his post. As of the time of fact-checking this claim, no one has engaged this tweet, while youtube has generated 37,820 […]
No, Ewedu and Chloroquine are no Cures for Coronavirus
Olakunle Mohammed A popular vegetable in Nigeria, ewedu, as cure for COVID-19 gained popularity in Nigeria in 2020, no thanks to misinformation about its medicinal values. At the same time, unverified claims that chloroquine, which was popular for the treatment of malaria fever, made Nigerians to buy them up from pharmaceutal stores in 2020. Both […]
CLAIM: Students in Lagos, Nigeria Run Away from Taking the COVID-19 Vaccine (VIDEO)
Zainab Sanni Misinformation around the Covid-19 vaccine is rife. In this report, we used OSINT tools to check the veracity of a viral video showing students jumping off a school building. In January 2021, Twitter account @RealNasasira posted a video of students jumping from their classrooms, running away from a school compound. His accompanying caption suggested that the video was […]
CLAIM: Eating Ewedu Cures COVID-19
Olakunle Mohammed There have been several claims on the use of several traditional drugs and herbs as a cure or prevention of COVID-19. One of the claims making rounds across social media and news platforms is that eating molokhia leaves, or what Nigerians simply refer to as Ewedu cures coronavirus or prevents you from catching […]
