Tag: Fact Check
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FACT CHECK: Does breaking fast with fizzy drinks cause kidney failure?
CLAIM: A digital picture with text, said to have emanated from Dr Adib Rizvi, a renowned Kidney specialist at Civil Hospital, Karach, has emerged on social media platforms, warning Muslims to refrain from breaking fast with fizzy drinks. The message is, particularly, being circulated on WhatsApp, a free messaging and video
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Drug baron accusation, Tinubu bares his fangs – By Mideno Bayagbon
Not very many people suspected it was fake. It looked and read like a genuine copy, letterhead, reference number, signature and all. But we at TheNewsGuru.com have had to establish a tradition, especially in these political times, of verifying every document, video and even photographs.
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FACT CHECK: Was Tinubu caught on camera watching Peter Obi’s interview on Arise TV?
A photo has surfaced on the Internet, especially on social media showing the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu supposedly watching his opponent, Peter Obi of the Labour Party on Arise TV.
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FACT CHECK: Did ASUU President’s daughter just graduate from a US varsity?
The speculation emanated from a Facebook post published by one Ekiti Princess, who alleged that Julianah Chedera Victor Osodeke, supposedly a 21-year-old daughter of the ASUU President recently bagged a degree from the foreign university.
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Fact Checking Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Certificates and all
In the early days of the current democratic dispensation, a scandal broke out in the National Assembly. The Speaker of the House of Representative, 32 years old Salisu Buhari, was accused of presenting fake Toronto University certificates to INEC. After attempts to stonewall and brag his way through failed, he was forced to eat the…
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FACT CHECK: 2011 voters cards have expired. How true?
FACT CHECK: 2011 voters cards have expired. How true?
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President Trump mulls executive order against social media
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on social media on Thursday, according to local media reports. The reports, citing unnamed White House officials, came a day after microblogging site, Twitter, tagged Trump’s tweets on mail-in voting as misleading. In the tweets, the president told his over 80 million followers that…
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Twitter issues fact check of Trump tweets for first time
Twitter issued a fact check of some of Donald Trump’s tweets on Tuesday, marking the first time the U.S. president’s favoured social media platform has pushed back against him spreading falsehoods. The move, which almost immediately heightened tensions between Trump and the social media giant, came in the form of a label under two of…
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FACT CHECK: False! Coronavirus is not an airborne disease
CLAIM: Novel coronavirus aka Covid-19 is an Airborne Disease CONCLUSION: False EVIDENCE: World Health Organisation (WHO) said coronavirus is not airborne, rather it is transmitted through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneeze or speaks. FULL TEXT: Since February 27, the day the novel coronavirus found its way to Nigeria, there has been quite…
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Fact check: Do President Buhari’s Aides tell lies?
Personal Assistant to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, on Sunday stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has less than 100 Aides, including Ministers. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the Presidential Aide stated this in reaction to concerns that Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who is aspiring to become Nigeria’s…