Kunle Adebajo

Head of Investigations at HumAngle. ‘Kunle covers conflict alongside its many intricacies and fallouts. He also writes about disinformation, the environment, and human rights. He's won a couple of journalism awards, including the 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Journalism, the 2022 African Fact-checking Award, and the 2023 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling.

Disinformation

Kunle AdebajoMay 31, 2022
6,033

Factcheck: Russia Claims U.S. Is Making Bioweapons In Nigeria. True?

Key takeaways: The laboratories pictured in the graphic shared by the Russian government are not secret facilities and were set…
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Humanitarian Crises

Kunle AdebajoMay 31, 2022
988

‘We Wouldn’t Suffer As Much If My Husband Were Here’

Bukar Mandara, 50, loved eating tuwon dawa and draw soup. He loved to wear white and green kaftans. Above all,…
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Armed Violence

Kunle AdebajoMay 26, 2022
920

CIVIC Condemns ISWAP Massacre In Borno, Asks Nigeria To Beef Up Security

The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), an international non-profit that advocates for the safety of civilians in areas rocked…
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Disinformation

Kunle AdebajoMay 21, 2022
891

Factcheck: Road Crashes Not Reason For ‘Almost 80%’ Of Deaths In Nigeria

Nigeria’s federal police spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said in a tweet on Wednesday, May 18, that nearly four-fifths of deaths in…
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Disinformation

Kunle AdebajoMay 20, 2022
1,093

Factcheck: Discrepancies In Nigeria Police’s Stolen, Recovered Vehicles Data

The latest figures from the Nigerian government regarding the number of vehicles stolen and then recovered by law enforcement officers…
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Analyses

Kunle AdebajoMay 20, 2022
1,452

Nigeria Has Not Released Crime Statistics In Four Years. Why?

The last time Nigeria released a crime statistics report was June 2018 and experts say this is costly for a…
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Analyses

Kunle AdebajoMay 14, 2022
851

Nigeria’s SIM Card Deactivation: ‘Helpful But Not Enough To Deter Terrorists’

When Nigeria’s federal authorities announced the partial deactivation of SIM cards that had not been linked to National Identification Numbers…
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Disinformation

Kunle AdebajoMay 12, 2022
1,246

Factcheck: Vehicles ‘Newly Acquired By Boko Haram’ In Fact Old, Misleading Pictures

A claim shared online, which supposedly showed armoured personnel carriers that recently fell into the hands of terrorists, is misleading.…
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Disinformation

Kunle AdebajoMay 11, 2022
2,415

Factcheck: Is Nigeria Truly Ranked World’s Second Most Unsafe Country?

Among other claims made, a Twitter user, Tocos4 (@Tocos4), on March 31, 2022 stated that the Cato Institute ranks Nigeria…
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Armed Violence

Kunle AdebajoMay 6, 2022
957

Nigeria’s Insecurity-Related Death Toll, Number Of Kidnap Victims Drop In April

Analysis of data gathered by the Nigeria Security Tracker (NST) has shown that at least 917 were killed as a…
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