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COVID-19: Infodemic Challenges the War Against The Pandemic in Nigeria
Infodemic, a term coined by World Health Organisation (WHO) to describe the deluge of misinformation at a time of pandemics,…
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COVID-19: Small Businesses Struggling to Survive in Kano, Operators Say
The Centre of Commerce, Kano, is home to small scale businesses and petty traders adorn one of Nigeria’s most populous…
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No Evidence that Shekau Received €5m Foreign Fund From an NGO
Claim A news report published on Opera News and circulating widely on WhatsApp claims that Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko…
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“Verbal Autopsies” Continue As Kano Loses Its Very Best
Kano continues to lose its very best in “unusual deaths” as the State Government insists that the increasing death rate…
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Citizens Resign To Fate As Kano Death Tolls Continue To Mount
While the Kano State Government continues to deny the rise in deaths in Kano, families have resigned themselves to fate…
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Tales Behind Kano’s “Unusual” Deaths
I found Mallam Danjuma, a gravedigger at one of the biggest cemeteries in Kano State, leaning feebly on the short…
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COVID-19: Contending With Clerics’ Web of Misinformation
There has never been a time in the history of pandemics that people have been as connected as they are…
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Clerics In Dilemma Over Social Distancing During Ramadan
As Ramadan approaches, Muslims in Nigeria are in a dilemma about how congregational prayers and sermons can be conducted in…
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COVID-19: Not Man-Made, Not For Population Reduction
Claim: Fact-checkers at HumAngle came across a video of Mallam Bashir Ahmad Sani, a Sokoto-based Islamic cleric, claiming that coronavirus…
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FactCheck: Did Chad’s Army Kill Abubakar Shekau?
Claim: A voice note circulating on WhatsApp with pictures of a dead body claims that Shekau was killed in a…
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