Claim: Viral WhatsApp message claimed some passengers of Igbo extraction traveling in a luxurious bus were attacked and killed in Jos, the Plateau State capital. Conclusion:...
Claim: “32 percent of Nigerians own Bitcoin, the highest percentage in the world” Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, 15 August 2021. Conclusion: False. The statistics quoted by...
Claim: A viral WhatsApp message claimed HollyFrontier bought a 678,000 bpd refinery bigger than Dangote refinery for US$ 2.6 billion, while NNPC is buying 20 percent...
Claim: Viral video claims Nigerian Senate is calling for division of the country. Conclusion: False. The scene in the video in reference took place within the...
Claim: Viral WhatsApp message claims ewedu (Jute) vegetable revived dying cancer patient. Conclusion: False. Components of the Jute (Ewedu) vegetable help prevent cancer, but not cure...
Claim: Statistics shows there are more men than women on earth. A viral WhatsApp post, crediting the United Nations Demography Report claims that there are more...
Claim: “There is something out there before we came in that Nigeria has housing deficit; it’s a lie” —Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing, April...
Claim: Viral message claims the Federal Civil Service is conducting an ongoing Recruitment for 2021/2022. Conclusion: False. The message is a refurbished one that has been...
Claim: News reports quoted a Nigerian-Canadian ‘Minister of Justice’, Kelechi Madu as saying that Nigeria’s Attorney-General, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami is a disgrace to...
Claim: Websites claim that the national cut off marks for admission into unity colleges is 142. Conclusion: No cut off marks have been pegged at the...
Claim: Nigeria Restructuring Bill concluded. Conclusion: This is not from the Federal Government, neither has it been considered, nor concluded at the National Assembly. It is just a...
Claim: Thousands of mosquitoes inoculated with viagra escape from high-security laboratory in Wuhan, China. Source: A news report has been making rounds on WhatsApp claiming that another...
Claim: Those who abducted students from Greenfield University, and released them after collecting ransom have been arrested with their loot Source: A viral image of suspects...
Claim: A viral video claims the Fulani has declared war in Ìbàràpá town of Oyo State. Source: The viral video received on WhatsApp was traced to...
Claim: A viral message shared on WhatsApp claims all vaccinated people will die in two years. Source: While people, including religious leaders have been condemning the...
Claim: Viral video claimed Hausa-Fulani suicide bomber killed by bomb hung on his waist in Ebonyi A video shared around on WhatsApp showed people gathered around...
