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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided a New York house belonging to former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and ...

IN SHORT: A viral video claims to show a ferry service between Onitsha and Lagos. But the video, posted initially on TikTok by a travel content creator, shows a ferry between Zanzibar and mainland ...

IN SHORT: New Zimbabwean legislation raised the retirement age for some civil servants in 2025. This doesn’t apply in South Africa, as some social media posts suggest. It is a photo of a genuine ...

IN SHORT: A video showing Seyi Tinubu, son of the Nigerian president, inspecting a military guard of honour is doing the rounds on social media. But the Nigerian armed forces has said the soldiers ...

IN SHORT: Several Facebook posts promote a mixture that can “boost low sperm count” in men. However, the supplement is not backed up by any scientific evidence and is not registered with Nigeria’s ...

IN SHORT: Several social media users have attributed a statement that suggests internal struggles within the Nigerian presidency to vice president Kashim Shettima. But there is no proof of this ...

Africa Check, the continent’s pioneering fact-checking organisation, has been debunking falsehoods and promoting information credibility since 2012. We have four offices across the continent: in ...

IN SHORT: The Oyo state government has asked Nigerians to stop sharing a horrific old video of a kidnapping hideout, littered with dismembered human body parts. The video has been online for over 10 ...

IN SHORT: The scam has been debunked before – but there is seemingly no end to its mutation and re-invention. Unicef is not giving away money through the so-called Unicef African Foundation. Learn how ...