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2 days ago |
allafrica.com | Muktar Balogun
Electrified or exaggerated? Fact-checking Nigerian power minister's claims Minister Adebayo Adelabu made a number of correct claims, including those relating to increasing grid capacity, reducing power subsidies and moving oversight functions to the states. However, his claims about electricity access and generation records are not supported by publicly available data.
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3 days ago |
allafrica.com | Muktar Balogun
IN SHORT: These Facebook pages are impersonating LAPO, a microfinance bank in Nigeria, and claiming to offer quick loans. Don't trust them. The Facebook pages LFMB Digital Microfinance LOAN, LMFB Digital LOAN, LAPO online loan service and Lapo microfinance loan offer loans to Nigerians. The LFMB Digital Microfinance LOAN page claims to offer "SME LOAN, PUBLIC SERVANT LOAN, BUSINESS LOAN, PERSONAL LOAN and EMMERGENCY LOAN".
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3 weeks ago |
allafrica.com | Muktar Balogun
IN SHORT: Some Facebook users have posted a video with the claim it shows a young Fulani boy eating a human arm. But there's no evidence the boy is Fulani or that the meat isn't monkey, most likely baboon. A video of a young boy eating what looks like a charred human arm is circulating online in Nigeria. One such post, published 12 April 2025, has a caption: "Fulani boy eating human flesh...
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1 month ago |
allafrica.com | Muktar Balogun
No proof Nigeria's Edo state compensated families of mob attack victims with N6 billionIN SHORT: Several social media users claim the Edo state government has compensated families of victims of a mob attack with N6 billion. But there is no proof of this, and the governor's spokesperson has denied the claim. On 27 March 2025, a group of travellers from northern Nigeria were killed by a mob in Uromi in the southeast state of Edo.
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1 month ago |
allafrica.com | Muktar Balogun
Ex-Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan denies saying incumbent Bola Tinubu will win the 2027 presidential electionIN SHORT: According to a screenshot doing the rounds on social media, former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has said president Bola Tinubu would win the 2027 presidential election. But Jonathan has denied making such a statement, and the article in the screenshot doesn't exist.
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