Samad Uthman is a multimedia journalist with the International Centre for Investigative Reporting. He tweets @sarmerdk2 and can be shot through suthman@icirnigeria.org
PA AMIOLA Sunday, a 64-year-old retired primary school headmaster in Osun state, has died and buried on Sunday, December 20, after a protracted illness.
Weeks...
YAHAYA Bello, Governor of Kogi State, on November 19th, 2020, claimed that the All Progressive Congress (APC) -led government is securing Nigeria, stating that...
ONE sunny afternoon in April 1996, Maryam Ibrahim, also known as Ladi, took Maryam Ibrahim Sulaiman, her six-year-old daughter, to the Infectious Diseases Hospital...
CLAIM
That the federal government is giving out 3million grants to support Nigerians.
Verdict
The claim is untrue. The website used as the conveyor belt is not...
Claim
The Queen of the United Kingdom, Her Royal Majesty, Elizabeth II wrote a condolence letter to the Nigerian government over the death of President...
CLAIM
That ASUU and federal government meeting ended in an altercation, and ASUU chairman, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, was slapped.
VERDICT
The claim that ASUU president was slapped...
ON October 6, a Twitter user @OurPortHarcourt posted pictures of a fire-ravaged police station, claiming that the station was attacked by gunmen in Enugu.
She...