Tag: fake news
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FACT-CHECK: Did the Nigeria police gun down ballot snatchers during Saturday’s polls?
A video has gone viral showing gunmen arriving at a polling unit on motorbikes to cause disruption to ongoing election. The masked men scared everyone away as they brandished their riffles and went on to destroy the mounter polling booths and election materials. Moments afterwards, gunshots were heard as a team of policemen closed in…
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Gov. Yahya Bello’s aide warns against fake news
Dr Gabriel Ottah, Special Adviser to Gov. Yahya Bello of Kogi on Information and Communications, has warned vendors of fake news to desist from the act and focus on communicating development messages. Ottah gave the warning on Friday at the first Public Lecture Series of the Department of Mass Communications of Prince Abubakar Audu University…
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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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A minister’s difficult journey to the National Assembly – By Okoh Aihe
It can be exasperatingly helpless when somebody tries to make a point and nobody seems to understand. So it was the other day as the Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made a passionate appeal to the lawmakers at the National Assembly to, at least, add more funds to his 2023 budget to enable…
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INEC reveals what could threaten 2023 elections in the country
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has made a list of areas deemed as threats to the 2023 general elections in the country. The electoral body listed social media, fake news , thuggery sponsored by some political actors and the perennial issue of insecurity in different parts of the country as major threats that could…
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2023: What the interest of every politician should be – Jonathan
Ahead of the 2023 elections, former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the interest of every politician should be the people first, adding that those who are going into politics to make money should rather go into business.
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Girl captured in viral sex video with dog is not dead – Police
The Lagos State Police Command said that the publication, with the caption “Girl captured in viral sex video with dog dies of Infection”, is fake.
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Umahi’s ex-aide detained over alleged fake news, slumps on arraignment
A former media aide to Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Godfrey Chikwere, has been arrested over alleged fake news. Chikwere allegedly made a post on his Facebook page that the Nigerian Army had lost self-respect and that
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Reports of helicopter supplying arms to criminals in Kaduna fake news – Official
Mr Samuel Aruwan, the Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, says reports of helicopter supplying arms to criminals in the state is false. Aruwan said in a statement issued on Friday in Kaduna that the report was a fake news alert. “The attention of the Kaduna State Government has been drawn to…