Factcheck

Background Insinuations and allegations that the attacks and killings are happening because President Buhari is Fulani are both unkind and incorrect. These attacks long predated the Buhari Government. In 2013 no fewer than nine cases of herdsmen attacks were recorded in Benue State alone, with more than 190 people killed. In 2014 there were no […]

1. Legislative Houses (Powers & Privileges) Act, 2018. The Legislative Houses Power and privileges Act grant the Legislative Houses: National Assembly and States Houses of Assembly Immunity from Litigation for actions taken in plenary or committee proceedings of the House or committee. It strengthens the power of the Legislators to carry out their legislative functions. […]

Background Insinuations and allegations that the attacks and killings are happening because President Buhari is Fulani are both unkind and incorrect. These attacks long predated the Buhari Government. In 2013 no fewer than nine cases of herdsmen attacks were recorded in Benue State alone, with more than 190 people killed. In 2014 there were no […]

READ: President Buhari’s message assuring that the scarcity will be over soon (Dec 24, 2017). READ: Vice President Osinbajo has been visiting petrol stations and depots in Lagos (Dec 24 and 25, 2017) Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu (Dec 25, 2017): “This would have been a great moment to wish every […]

Contrary to a report by Punch Newspaper, the misrepresentation of the Energizing Education Programme (EEP) as merely a “solar-powered streetlight project” is false. Serving as a critical investment in the education sector, the EEP seeks to reinvigorate the system through electrifying 37 federal universities and 7 university teaching hospitals, with the Independent Power Plants (IPPS). […]

1). The Buhari Administration recognises the seriousness of the migrant situation, across West Africa, the Sahel, North Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and is taking steps to decisively address the situation. The President has described news reports of the enslavement of persons in Libya as appalling and unacceptable. Read the Statement featuring the President’s […]

Contrary to media reports, President Buhari did not ask the World Bank to give Northern Nigeria an unfair advantage over other parts of Nigeria. What the President did, and justifiably so, was to upon assumption of office seek the help of the World Bank in rebuilding the beleaguered North-east, devastated by a long-running insurgency that […]

The Nigerian Army is not involved in any forceful immunizations of children in any part of the country. According to the Army, “the Nigerian Army does not and will never carry out its medical outreaches or vaccination exercises for that matter in Schools. We can therefore categorically inform the public that the ongoing rumours about […]

Reports circulating by the Africa Independent Television (AIT) that the yams exported abroad to UK and USA were rejected due to being rotten are false. According to Mr. Michael Adedipe of ADES UK Foods and Drinks and Mr Yandev Amaabai of Wan Nyikwagh Farms Nigeria Limited, they refuted the reports, noting that the reports were […]

Update on Latest Developments regarding Operation Egwu Eke II by the Nigerian Military in Abia, Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Cross River States, HERE

Update on Exercise Crocodile Smile II by the Nigerian Military in the South West and Niger Delta, HERE

Contrary to media reports, the World Bank did not disagree with Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun over the borrowings by the Nigerian Government to stimulate the economy and finance infrastructure projects in the country. According to the World Bank, “On October 11th, during the launch of Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s bi-annual analysis of African economies, […]