Fact Check
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Viral video showing Bawumia singing Chinese song, fake!
Claim: A video of Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia singing a Chinese song during a public speech that has gone viral…
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Twitter user shares inaccurate Bank of Ghana’s financial performance figures from 2013-2023
Claim: Twitter user shares Bank of Ghana’s financial performances, claiming the central bank has been making losses since 2018 Verdict:…
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Claim that Ghana’s GDP growth rate target in 2024 budget was 3.1%, false
Claim: Ghana’s Deputy Finance Minister, Dr Stephen Amoah, has said the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate target in…
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False, GDP growth rate was not 3.5% in 2018
Claim: The Deputy Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Malik Basintale, claimed that the gross domestic product (GDP)…
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Video of flooded highway in Lagos, not Accra
Claim: An X user shared a video of vehicles submerged by heavy rainfall, claiming it happened in Accra. Verdict: False!…
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Ghana’s police chief still at post despite removal rumour
Claim: Multiple sources say the Ghanaian government has asked the country’s police chief, Dr George Dampare, to go on leave…
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False! TESCON KNUST has not endorsed 24-hour economic policy
Claim: An X user, @fanti_boy, tweeted that KNUST’s Tertiary Students Confederacy of New Patriotic Party (TESCON) branch has endorsed the…
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Ghanaian Minister manipulates video interview, alleges misrepresentation
Claim: Ghana’s Deputy Local Government Minister, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, claims he was misrepresented when he compared the poverty levels in…
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False claim attributed to NDC’s Fifi Kwetey over division of Ashanti Region
Claim: An X user alleges that the General Secretary of Ghana’s opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Fifi Kwetey, said his…
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False! Man beaten in viral video, not Burkina Faso’s former transport minister
Claim: A viral video claimed that Vincent Dabilgou, former Minister of Transportation in Burkina Faso, was stripped and beaten in…
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