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7 mins read Claim: A devious website claims Nigerian scientists will land on planet Mars by December 2021 among other claims. Verdict: Findings have revealed that ejiblinks.xyz is a click bait website. It only displays outrageous headlines on social media, to lend credence to a misleading website so it is misleading. Full Text A devious […]
A viral message on WhatsApp purportedly originating from an investment company, claims to offer double return on investments.
But findings have revealed that the scheme is fraudulent and the so-called company is not registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission.
4 mins read Claim: The CEO of Crowwe application and one-time presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has claimed that he asked Google to take down his social media platform from Google Playstore because he needed to update the App. But Verification has shown that Google only removes applications that are perceived to have violated its policy, […]
The Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship named in honour of Ghanaian Professor Kwame Karikari, redoubtable media freedom advocate and founder of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), is a brainchild of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), and Out of 200 applicants from the Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone 26 fellows were selected; the Nigerian Cohort of this fellowship is supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
