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27/04/2023

FALSE! Hakimi's properties not in his mother's name.

07/09/2022

A Twitter user claimed that Nigerian troops have arrested a foreign pilot in Niger state, who supplies weapons to bandits.

26/08/2022

21/08/2022

Accessing deleted online content is among the major nightmares facing fact-checkers. Sometimes, the

21/08/2022

ON WEDNESDAY, the 10th of August 2022, a popular Nigerian blog, Instablog9ja at about 2:06 pm posted on its social media pages (Instagram and Twitter), the identities, including names and photos, of the five arrested suspected killers of victims of the Owo massacre.

21/08/2022

Fake news peddlers often take photographs out of context. They digitally alter the photographs to promote an agenda or push an interest...

21/08/2022

“Hepatitis B is 💯 percent curable do not b deceived,” reads a message posted on a public Facebook group page with more than 5,000 followers. Hepatitis...

21/08/2022

A message shared on Facebook in Nigeria claims Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai said Islam prohibits people protesting against their governments. Kaduna ...

21/08/2022

FALSE, Nigerian Famers Association Not Giving #100,000 Grant

https://roundcheck.com.ng/blog/2022/07/01/false-nigerian-farmers-association-is-not-giving-100000-grant/

A viral post on WhatsApp groups, claims Nigerian farmers Association is giving 100,000 Naira grants to both farmers and non-farmers as part of the 2022

08/08/2022

We are now in an era of fake reports and misinformation and it is important as an individual or organization to not be a part of the spread.

This is why ROUNDCHECK is inviting you to our maiden edition of a media discussion on *THE YOUTHS INVOLVEMENT IN ENDING FALSE INFORMATION.*

Time: 5:00 pm

Date: 10th August 2022.

Venue: Twitter Spaces

Our Speakers:

Linda Ngari,
Fact-checking Editor for Piga Firimbi at Africa Uncensored (Kenya)

David Ajikobi,
Nigerian Editor, Africa Check Africa Check Nigeria

Ikulajolu Adesola,
Managing Editor, Roundcheck

Segun Olakoyenikan
Fact-checking Journalist, AFP Fact Check (Nigeria)

Lois Ugbede
Researcher, Dubawa Nigeria

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Roundcheck’s space · Where live audio conversations happen

06/08/2022

“We raised fuel price to 200 Naira and diesel to 800 Naira to reduce the number of traffic and accidents in Nigeria,” a July 2022 Facebook post quotes Niger...

06/08/2022

FACT-CHECK:

Electricity: Claim that national grid has collapsed eighteen times in 2022 is FALSE

FOLLOWING the collapse of Nigeria’s national electricity grid last week, a viral claim has circulated online.

Read more here: https://factcheckhub.com/electricity-claim-that-national-grid-has-collapsed-eighteen-times-in-2022-is-false/

FOLLOWING the collapse of Nigeria's national electricity grid last week, a viral claim has circulated online.

06/08/2022

The Nigerian Presidential candidate from the Labour Party, Peter Obi made a claim about the “Total Export In Nigeria”. The claim was FALSE!

FactCheckHub did a check and gave their verdict.

30/07/2022

Claim: Mr Bio claimed that if you go around the world, Sierra Leone comes first when you talk about gender empowerment. Full Text President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Rtd Brigadier Julius Maada Bio, has reiterated his government’s commitment to fulfil promises made to the people of Moyamba. ...

30/07/2022

In the last quarter of 2020, the BBC Africa Eye released an investigation revealing a global chain of scams under the name Crowd1. The investigation titled “Unmasking the Pyramid Kings -Crowd1 scam targets Africa” featured testimonials from defrauded victims and uncovered the chain of personalit...

30/07/2022

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29/07/2022

👨🏽‍⚕️ ‘In search of greener pastures’: Checking five claims about Nigeria’s doctors and the brain drain

https://africacheck.info/nigeria_doctors