IN SHORT: The Nigeria Forest Security Service is not recruiting. Interested social media users should ignore posts encouraging them to apply from 11 November 2025, and check the service’s official ...

IN SHORT: A claim that Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni is critically ill and in hospital is circulating on social media. However, there is no evidence to support it. Two graphics circulating on ...

IN SHORT: Shortly after the announcement of former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga’s death on 15 October 2025, some social media posts claimed that his older brother had been rushed to the hospital ...

IN SHORT: Some social media posts claim that the matriculation exam is no longer required for entry to tertiary institutions in Nigeria. However, the education ministry says this is not true. The ...

IN SHORT: Nigeria’s Abia state government is set to launch an electric bus transport system by the end of 2025. But claims that Abia will be the first Nigerian state to do this are false. On 11 ...

IN SHORT: According to an image circulating on social media in Kenya, Citizen TV reported that the university’s staff union has called off the ongoing 2025 lecturers’ strike. However, the news report ...

Marking the country’s 65th Independence Day, Bola Tinubu claimed several economic achievements by his government, from GDP growth and inflation to revenue and trade balance. We investigated 18 of them ...

IN SHORT: Even if type O blood was associated with lower levels of two “inflammation markers”, this would not be evidence of slower ageing. But to make matters worse, there’s no evidence that the ...

DAKAR. Ariel Gbaguidi, a journalist from Benin’s La Nation, won the award for fact-check of the year by a working journalist at the African Fact-Checking Awards ceremony held in Senegal on 2 October ...