Fake news
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News
Army wants NUJ to check excesses of fake news peddlers
The Commander 33 Artillery Brigade, Shadawanka barracks Bauchi, Brigadier General E. Egbe has charged journalists, particularly leaders of the Nigeria…
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News
Man bags 7 years in jail for false information
Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court today, April, 18, 2023, convicted and sentenced one Adamu Jatau to…
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News
NADIR appoints PRNigeria’s Head of Fact-Check Dahiru as Executive Secretary
The Head of Special Investigations and Fact-checking at PRNigeria, Mohammed Dahiru Lawal has been appointed as the executive secretary of…
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Education
ASUU constitutes seven-man committee to tackle ‘misinformation’
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has constituted a seven-member committee to address what it tagged a smear media…
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Extra
Fact check: 1963 movie did not predict the ‘Omicron Variant’
The claim: Image shows poster for a 1963 Italian movie called ‘The Omicron Variant’ As more cases of the new…
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News
Buhari’s alleged air mishap fake news, Adesina says
The Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina has described as fake, reports that the aircraft on which President Muhammadu Buhari recently…
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News
Titi Atiku disowns Facebook post, says ‘I don’t operate social media accounts’
Wife of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has disowned a Facebook post, describing it as fake news. Titi Atiku Abubakar,…
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News
Information minister tasks media on fact-checking
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has advised media organizations to set up a special desk for…
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Interview
Hillary Clinton: ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’
Her bid for the White House was engulfed by a tidal wave of fabricated news and false conspiracy theories. Now Hillary…