Fact Check
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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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Viral comment falsely attributed to Mahama’s aide, Joyce Bawah
Claim: Joyce Bawah Mogtari, a Spokesperson of Ghana’s ex-President John Mahama, has blamed the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for…
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FALSE! Mahama hasn’t released ‘proposed 2025 ministerial list’
Claim: Multiple sources say the 2024 flagbearer of Ghana’s opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, has submitted a list…
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Majority Leader makes false claim about Ghana’s electricity tariff reduction
Claim: Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin claims that the NPP government is the first to reduce electricity tariffs in the Fourth…
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Image of wrecked aeroplane falsely attributed to Malawi Vice President’s plane crash
Claim: An X user @AlinurMohammed_ has shared an image featuring the wreckage of an aircraft claiming to be from the…
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