Kúnlé Adébàjò

Photos of Burnt Animals in Popular Tweet aren’t From Fires in Amazon

by Kúnlé AdébàjòDisinformation, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

In August 2019 many news outlets reported that the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, was burning at an alarming rate. The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil, the country home to more than two-thirds of the forest, recorded over 70,000 fires across the region in 2019. Many people have shared images of the fires and of animals killed in …

Brazen Police Extortion is Frustrating Rape Victims’ Quest for Justice in Nigeria

by Kúnlé AdébàjòHuman Rights, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Victims of rape hardly get justice in Nigeria. Oftentimes the miscarriage of justice happens because law enforcement officers compromise. ‘Kunle ADEBAJO reports. “Sorry sir, this amount that they told me, I don’t have up to that o,” Nanpon Julius pleads after exchanging pleasantries and introducing himself. He is on the phone with Okokon Udo, a …

Landlord Rapes Two Young Sisters and Flees; Nearly Two Years After, Justice Still Eludes Devastated Family

by Kúnlé AdébàjòHuman Rights, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

If you asked Grace Bako, 10, or her sister, Janet, 14, what careers they’re interested in when they become grownups, they would reply, Medicine and Pharmacy. And if you asked why, their explanation would be: to treat people, especially little children, who are dealing with trauma. What they may not immediately disclose though is that …

Life in Ogoniland Still Cruel as Ever Three Years After Cleanup’s Launch

by Kúnlé AdébàjòDevelopment, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

For a year and three months, Veronica Aloy Khenom worked tirelessly on her okra and cassava farm, just adjacent her home in Gokana, one of four local government areas in Ogoniland. One bright afternoon towards the end of January, she returned to finally gather the produce. But what she met was disappointing—though unsurprising. Since constant …

Wigs Without Welfare: Lawyers in Nigeria Earn Below Minimum Wage, and It isn’t Unusual

by Kúnlé AdébàjòHuman Rights, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Six hundred and thirty naira (N630). This was the amount Andrew Bello, a Lagos-based lawyer, received in one of the months he worked for a law firm in Ikoyi. His total salary was supposed to be N20,000 per month, but his firm deducted N500 for each day he got to the office later than 8 …

Int’l Fact-Checking Day: How Public Figures React to Fact-checks in Nigeria and Why We Should Bother

by Kúnlé AdébàjòDisinformation, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Fact-checking no doubt has become an important area of journalism globally and is increasingly taking centre stage across many newsrooms. In Nigeria, not only are major news agencies releasing fact-checks on a regular basis, establishing fact-check desks and empowering their reporters with advanced tools for research and verification, organisations, such as Africa Check and Dubawa, …

Injustice in Ivory Tower (1-3)

by Kúnlé AdébàjòEducation, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Workers at the Tai Solarin College of Education are currently owed billions in salary arrears and unremitted cooperative and pension deductions by their employer-Ogun State government, from 2009 till date. Over the years, 48 of them have passed away in active service, with most of the deaths attributable to the hardship caused by the prolonged non-payment. In …

Has Electricity Generation Worsened or Improved Since 2015? We Verified

by Kúnlé AdébàjòDisinformation, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Nigeria’s top two political parties apparently disagree on how much electricity the country is currently generating compared to four years ago when the Buhari administration started. Speaking in August, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said the power sector was no longer where it used to be three years ago when “power …

Not Too Young to Scam: The Worrisome Story of Adolescent ‘Yahoo Boys’ in Ogun State

by Kúnlé AdébàjòDevelopment, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Olamide is only 17 years old, but not only does he have a lot of internet fraudsters in his circle of friends, but he is also considering trying his hand on the line of work too. For now, he helps his mom by hawking oranges, sold in packs of three or four. From morning till …

The Falsehoods, Exaggerations of Nigeria’s Leading Parties at First CDD Presidential Debate

by Kúnlé AdébàjòDisinformation, Journalism September 17, 2022September 17, 2022No Comments

Top members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) met in Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, on Tuesday to each convince Nigerians their parties possessed the best ideas in bringing lasting peace to the country. However, not all their claims and arguments, as The ICIR later discovered in a follow-up fact-check, are founded …