We verified several claims made by the former Nigerian aviation minister and prominent politician in a TV interview.

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

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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 ...

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: 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: A video has been circulating online with the claim it shows Nigerians in Niger protesting against a French military base. But it is from August 2023, during a pro-coup rally in Niger.

IN SHORT: A claim is circulating on Facebook, saying that Nigeria’s northern governors have rejected English as the medium of instruction in their schools. Niger state governor Mohammed Bago has ...