Fact Check
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Viral TV3 flier alleging Mahama promised to buy market women iPhone, fake!
Claim: An X user, Samuel Anyidoho, posted a flier purportedly designed by TV3, a Ghanaian media house, indicating that the…
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Misleading! Link soliciting applications for ad hoc staff for Ghana’s EC expired
Claim: WhatsApp users share a link that the Electoral Commission is recruiting ad hoc staff. Verdict: Misleading! Details on the link showed that Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) is…
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Mahama didn’t ask Kumasi International Airport to be named after Nkrumah
Claim: A WhatsApp user said that Ghana’s ex-President John Mahama has asked for the Kumasi International Airport to be renamed…
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False! Bawumia is not introducing free visas for Ghana cardholders
Claim: A viral fact card on WhatsApp alleges Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of Ghana and flag bearer of the…
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No, Mahama did not promise to stabilise cedi within 100 days in office
Claim: News reports claim the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, John Mahama, promised to stabilise the cedi in the…
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False visa claim attributed to Secretary to Ghana’s president, Asante Bediatuo
Claim: Multiple sources allege that Nana Asante Bediatuo, the Secretary to Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has told the Canadian High…
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False; NDC has not threatened to dismiss all security officers recruited since 2017
Claim: Social media users claim that the National Democratic Congress intends to dismiss all personnel recruited into various national security…
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MASLOC chief executive’s claim inflation stands at 23% is false
Claim: The Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Hajia Abibata Zakariah, has claimed that Ghana’s…
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Fact-checking viral claims on Iran President’s plane crash
Full Text The world was shaken by the unexpected news of the death of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, The news…
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Bawumia’s claim Ghana will be the first to implement blockchain technology, false
Claim: Ghana’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, claims no African government has implemented blockchain technology. Verdict: This is false. DUBAWA’s…
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