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[EXPLAINER] What does the law say about defamation?
Oct 8, 2024 · What is a defamation? is a question that followed the release of audio recordings by social media personality Martins Vincent Otse (VeryDarkMan), which alleges that Okuneye Idris (Bobrisky), a popular crossdresser, bribed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officers with N15 million to drop money laundering charges against him.. …
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2024 Edo governorship election: pre-election fact-checks
Sep 20, 2024 · Claim 9. CLAIM: An X user, Akpakominza, claimed that Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Edo state, distributed a trailer load of rice hoarded by the incumbent Edo state’s governor, Godwin Obaseki. THE FINDINGS: The NFC ran a Reverse Image search on a keyframe from the video and verified that Mr Okpebholo is …
2024: Tackling Nigeria’s new, recurrent epidemics
Jan 6, 2024 · In its December 18, 2023 report, the Centre noted that Nigeria might have recorded the highest number of Lassa fever cases, with 8,542 suspected cases, 1,170 confirmed cases, and 200 deaths across 28 states.. Meanwhile, as of December 24, the number of suspected Lassa fever cases stood at 8978, out of which 1227 cases were confirmed, and 216 deaths were reported across 28 states.
Insecurity: 2,336 Nigerians killed in Q1 2024
Apr 25, 2024 · At the beginning of the year, Vice President Kahsim Shettima said that President Bola Tinubu had approved N50 billion as the “Pulaaku Initiative”, a non-kinetic solution to deal with insurgency and banditry in the North.. However, the data gathered showed that the northern states have suffered more insecurity attacks in the quarter under review than the Southern region.
Nigerian states race to conduct local government poll
Oct 4, 2024 · Recall that The ICIR reported that former President Muhammadu Buhari, in May 2020, signed an executive order to grant financial autonomy to the judiciary, legislature, and local government councils, but analysts said the misappropriation of LGA funds would not end until a proper constitutional amendment was done.. Other states positioned for LG poll ...
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Dayo Aiyetan is the founding Executive Director of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, ICIR, Abuja.He was a senior associate editor and Abuja Bureau chief of TELL Magazine, Nigeria’s leading political weekly, until May 2010 when he resigned to set up the Centre. A graduate of Theatre Arts/English from the University of Ibadan, he started his journalism career as a Features ...
2024 Edo governorship poll: election day live fact-checks
Sep 21, 2024 · Claim 12. CLAIM: An X user @IwadiDevelopmen, shared a WhatsApp message stating that the court has disqualified the APC governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo, in the 2024 Edo election. THE FINDINGS: The Cable reports that a magistrate in the Federal Capital Territory, Abubakar Mukhtar, has denied any order disqualifying the APC candidate. The news outlet quoted the magistrate’s reaction to ...
How elections are conducted in Nigeria
Jan 12, 2023 · The process of conducting elections in Nigeria is governed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Electoral Act. Nigeria operates a presidential system of government, and as such, presidential and parliamentary elections …