Three claims about cancer in Nigeria
Source: Vice president Yemi Osinbajo (January 2020)
One correct, one mostly correct, one incorrect
Three claims about burden of stroke in Nigeria
Source: Prof Abayomi Ogun, president of the Nigerian Stroke Organisation
One correct, one unproven, one misleading
This year, Africa Check’s Nigeria office seemed to face more false claims than there are hours in the day. And the most worrying of these were about health.
800,000 cows poisoned with cowpox in Nigeria in 2019, so don’t eat beef. Share message and you could save lives.
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Cowpox rarely deadly, not transmitted by cows or from eating beef, no outbreak in Nigeria in 2019
In their history, Nigerian universities have not had more than 15 vice-chancellors.
Source: The Guardian newspaper, Nigeria (November 2019)
Available data reveals there have been at least 20 female vice-chancellors.
11 claims about Nigeria’s 'mental health problem'
Source: News organisation Al Jazeera (10 October 2019)
Three correct or mostly correct, one misleading, two unproven, five incorrect
Information and communications technology contributes 13.9% to Nigeria’s GDP, and oil and gas contributes 8.8%.
Source: Dr Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy (October 2019)
Minister compared a nominal GDP figure with a real GDP figure.
Of the roughly 14,000 Nigerian women diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, just over 8,000 will die.
Source: Dr Chris Ifediora, founder of the Onyebuchi Chris Ifediora Foundation (September 2019)
New data shows more women are being diagnosed, and that there are more deaths
Four claims on female sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria
Source: Punch newspaper (July 2019)
Three incorrect, one unproven
Malaria kills an average of 300,000 people yearly in Nigeria.
Source: WellaHealth insurance service (August 2019)
WHO data puts Nigeria’s 2017 malaria death toll at 81,640.