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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.
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LIVE UPDATE: Edo 2024 governorship election - icirnigeria.org
Sep 20, 2024 · The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) holds off-cycle governorship elections in Edo state tomorrow, September 21.Follow the updates below:
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.
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Twelve different online scams you should know
Feb 26, 2022 · According to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS) fraud analysis, web channels account for 51 per cent of fraud attempts in 2019 and 47 per cent in 2020.. The FactCheckHub, a fact-checking arm of The ICIR, in a report, highlighted some ways of recognising phishing websites to avoid becoming a victim.. 2 – Another method is what can be termed card skimming fraud.
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 …
Nigerians abroad can now return with expired passports
Dec 13, 2022 · According to the memo, all airlines are to allow holders of expired Nigerian passports to board without any hindrance. The memo reads, “I am directed to respectfully present the compliments of the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service and notify all relevant authorities that the Federal Government of Nigeria has approved that Nigerians returning home can be admitted into the ...