By Nigerian Fact-checkers’ Coalition. A Team of journalists, researchers, fact-checkers, social media monitors, editors, and OSINT experts drawn from the coalition partners, are working from the Nigerian Fact-checkers’ Coalition’s (NFC) Election Situation Rooms located in Abuja and Lagos, to debunk election-related misinformation and disinformation content targeted at causing voter apathy, inciting violence or influencing the outcome […]

Claim An X user claimed the Nigerian government only donated RICE to the Maiduguri flood victims. Verdict This claim is FALSE.Credible media organizations in Nigeria reported that the Nigerian government donated ₦3bn on September 11, 2024. Full Text The Maiduguri State flooding began in early September 2024 in Borno State, Nigeria, after the collapse of the […]

Claim An X user shared an image of President Bola Tinubu and former Nigeria leader Muhammadu Buhari, and claimed the two had an important meeting in London recently. Verdict This claim is MISLEADING. This photo of Bola Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari first appeared online in August 2021 when the later visited the former in London. Full Text An […]

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Claim An X user, @WaleBolatito, claimed that the ex-governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, apologized on behalf of Amala, a Canadian woman who threatened to poison the Yoruba and Benin people in August. Verdict This claim is FALSE. In two separate posts on X on August 30 and September 4th, while reacting to this, the 2023 […]

In August 2024, Simon Ekpa and the Biafra Republic Government in Exile ordered a 30-day lockdown of the Nigerian government institutions in the Southeast region from August 28 to September 26, excluding private businesses. This action responds to the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu and the alleged killings of Christians and Biafrans. Ekpa demands Kanu’s […]

Claim An X user posted statistics that ranked Egypt as the first African country with the most WhatsApp users. Verdict This statistics is FALSE. Findings indicate that since 2023 till August 2024, Nigeria is the Africa country with largest number of WhatsApp users. Full Text In August, an X user, Africa Firsts shared a statistics which ranked Egypt as first […]

Claim A Facebook page posted image of highway and captioned it Sango-Abeokuta Road, in Ogun State, Nigeria Verdict This claim is MISLEADING. A simple Google image reverse search shows that it’s highway in Pakistan known as Hazara Motorway. Full Text A Facebook page named The True History Of Yoruba —Oduduwa, on August 24 2024, shared image of a long […]

Claim An X user posted photo of man and attributed him as Nigerian arrested with fraudulent documents. Verdict This claim is MISLEADING. Checks indicates that the image of the man first surfaced on X in April 2024. While the other photo showing documents appeared in 2022. Full Text In August, an X user, @Patriot_S_A shared two photos of an unidentified […]

Claim X users shared list of Nigerians in Ethiopia prison. Verdict This claim is UNPROVEN.There’s no concrete evidence that supported this claim Full Text Users on X platform, Pst Okezie and Delani recently shared a list and claimed the names on the list are Nigerians currently in Ethiopia prison. The posts by Pst Okezie and Delani on X generated over 355k and more than 800 reposts. […]