• Fact Check: Phishing Website Used to Advertise First Bank Loan Is Misleading 

    Fact Check: Phishing Website Used to Advertise First Bank Loan Is Misleading 0

      Claim: First Bank is giving Loans to the Public as advertised on its website on Facebook Verdict: Misleading  Background On September  29th, 2024,  a Facebook page with the username The News shared a post with a direct web link stating that FirstBank of Nigeria is offering loans to Nigerians without needing any documents. The

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  • Amendments to the 1999 Constitution Not Likely Earlier Than 2026

    Amendments to the 1999 Constitution Not Likely Earlier Than 20260

    Despite seemingly starting early, there are indications from the National Assembly, that the task of amending the 1999 constitution may not be accomplished until sometime in year 2026. The Constitution Review Committee (CRC) of the National Assembly, going by its enumerated events, and processes for amendments may not conclude the exercise until 2026, which will

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  • Daily Trust Newspaper Apologises to FG, Readers Over Inaccurate Samoa Agreement Story

    Daily Trust Newspaper Apologises to FG, Readers Over Inaccurate Samoa Agreement Story0

    Eleven days after the National Media Complaints Commission (NMCC), an independent Ombudsman, directed the Daily Trust newspaper, an Abuja-based media organisation, to apologise to the Federal Government (FG) over its false publication on 4 July 2024, the media outfit on Thursday ate the humble pie, tendering apologies to the complainant, the FG, and its numerous

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  • House of Reps Rejects CFR Honour, Wants Speaker Conferred with GCON

    House of Reps Rejects CFR Honour, Wants Speaker Conferred with GCON0

    Subtly rejecting the toga of second fiddle, the 360 members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected President Tinubu’s proposed conferment of the Honour of the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CFR) on the Speaker of the House while conferring the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on the

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  •  Fact-Check: Facebook Page Claiming to Be Opay Agent Is Fabricated 

     Fact-Check: Facebook Page Claiming to Be Opay Agent Is Fabricated 0

        Verdict: The Facebook page claiming to be an Opay agent Fraudulent. Brief: Several Facebook pages using the name of Opay, a Nigerian Fintech organisation, claim that Opay is carrying out a Promo on its POS machine. Full Text:  Multiple Facebook pages have been seen to have posted that Opay is giving out its

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  • Experts Describe President Tinubu’s Speech as Uninspiring, Empty Rhetoric

    Experts Describe President Tinubu’s Speech as Uninspiring, Empty Rhetoric0

    The customary independence anniversary speech, the second by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has drawn reactions from Nigerians. Some of the experts have described the speech as uninspiring and lacking take-away messages of hope about the country’s future. Prof. Abdelrasaq Na-Allah of the Department of Economics, University of Abuja said three metrics can be used, based

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