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IFCN offers fact-checking grants to fight misinformation on WhatsApp

The Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), in partnership with Meta, is accepting proposals for the Spread the Facts Grant Program. This...

FACT-CHECK: Did court restrain Obaseki from contesting Edo PDP primaries?

DADDY D.O, a Twitter user with the username @DOlusegun, on Monday posted a document at exactly 11:51 pm with...
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Fact-checking social media influencers who shared fake news during Nigerian general elections

Ahead of the 2019 Nigeria's general elections, many Nigerians knowingly or ignorantly shared misinformation on the social media. Some...

Tope Fasua picks hole in ICIR fact-check, calls it ‘nonsense, nasty reporting’ — but he is incorrect

TOPE Fasua, founder and 2019 presidential candidate of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP), has reacted to a fact-check...
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Osun Decides 2018: Exposing the fallacies, exaggerations, outright lies in governorship debate

IN the evening of Sunday, six days to the Osun State gubernatorial election, four of the prominent aspirants gathered...

Ajimobi lied, residents say. No petitions were sent to demolish Ayefele’s Music House

FOLLOWING widespread condemnation of his government's partial demolition of Yinka Ayefele's Music House and popular radio station, Oyo State...
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