#LagosRace2023: Fact-checking claims by candidates seeking to govern Nigeria’s economic capital
The current state governor was a no-show at the #ThePlatformNG debate, leaving three other candidates to outline their plans for Lagos.
The current state governor was a no-show at the #ThePlatformNG debate, leaving three other candidates to outline their plans for Lagos.
An analysis by Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper said over 50% of the country’s people have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus and survived.
A leading national newspaper made several claims about Nigeria’s education sector. We took a closer look at six of them.
Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, medical doctor and first lady of Lagos, wants the state to be healthier. But do her claims about the extent of poor nu...
Non-profit organisation Connected Development had many sitting right up with this startling claim about mortality in Africa’s most populous ...
Drug-resistant malaria could be a concern for Africa, an online report said, due to its outsized toll on children.
Africa’s most populous nation is experiencing an increase in cervical cancer cases because of the Covid-19 pandemic, said a prominent oncolo...
Highlighting the impact of gold mining, a researcher claimed that some villages in Zamfara had recorded lead poisoning among children
Local and international media misreport that Nigerian scientists discovered a vaccine for covid-19 and not a potential candidate.
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