A former presidential candidate took to national TV, where he among other claims said 5G radiation levels could ‘cremate’ people. Was Martin Onovo correct?
Six claims about the Nigerian economy.
Source: Former Nigerian vice president Atiku Abubakar (8 April 2020)
Three correct or mostly correct, two incorrect, one unproven.
Three claims about education in Ekiti state in southwestern Nigeria
Source: Governor Kayode Fayemi (February 2020)
Two incorrect, one unproven
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Youth unemployment in Nigeria is almost 70%.
Source: Dr Obadiah Mailafia, former deputy governor of Nigeria’s central bank (2 January 2020)
The most recent official data shows that 29.7% of youth in Nigeria were unemployed, and and a further 25.7% underemployed.
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.