Nana B’s narrative on different voting days for various presidential candidates false
Claim: Henry Nana Boakye claims that the various presidential candidates will be voted for on separate voting days.Verdict: False. Article 46 of the Constitution of Ghana...
Did Bawumia call Ghanaians gullible and promise to deceive them into winning the election?
Claim: A viral TikTok audio allegedly features Mahamudu Bawumia, NPP presidential candidate, calling Ghanaians weak-minded and promising to deceive them into winning the upcoming election.Verdict: False.Explanation
The Ghana Fact-checking...
Misleading, John Mahama did not say his government would plant grasses across Ghana
Claim: An X user, Gen. Buhari, has posted a video claiming that John Mahama said, “The NDC government will plant grasses across the country so...
Reports of Mahama, Bawumia taking the lead in special voting, false
Claim: Social media users are reporting an early lead for the presidential candidates of the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress in...
False, NPP’s Patrick Boamah did not preach “skirt and blouse” at Fadama
Claim: A user on X, Political Warden (@khkayy27), has posted a video with the claim that NPP’s Patrick Yaw Boamah encouraged the people of Fadama...
New Force’s Shalimar Abbiusi awarded $10,000, not $1m in case against Ghana
Claim: Social media users claim that the ECOWAS court has awarded a $1 million cost against Ghana in the case against New Force’s Shalimar Abbiusi.Verdict: This...
NPP’s Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah makes misleading claims about Mahama
Ghana’s Works and Housing minister, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has urged the electorate to retain the country’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December polls.The lawmaker...
Fact card of NAPO saying without him, Bawumia cannot get 50% votes in Ashanti Region, false!
Claim: Popular Ghanaian influencer Enokay and broadcaster Kevin Taylor shared a fact card allegedly quoting former Energy Minister and New Patriotic Party (NPP) running mate, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, aka...
Freddie Blay’s claim that the country’s inflation rate stands at 14% is false
Claim: Freddie Blay, the former national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has claimed that the county’s inflation rate currently stands at 14%.Verdict: False. The...
Viral photo of Kylian Mbappé and Nadia Buari doctored
Claim: Social media users have shared a viral photo of Kylian Mbappe and Nadia Buhari, depicting that the two took a picture together.Verdict: False. The viral...
Freddie Blay’s claim country’s inflation rate stands at 14%, false
Claim: Freddie Blay, the former national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has claimed that the county’s inflation rate currently stands at 14%.Verdict: False. The...
True, NAPO mentioned John Mahama’s name instead of Dr Bawumia during address at UPSA
Claim: Social media users have shared a video of Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh (NAPO), the running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), urging voters...
False: Viral campaign videos allegedly depicting violence not from NPP or NDC
Claim: Social media users have shared viral videos that allegedly show the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) mocking voters...
Kufuor’s wheelchair comment falsely attributed to NDC’s Sammy Gyamfi
Claim: Multiple sources claimed Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communication Officer of Ghana’s opposition NDC, has asked the country’s ex-President John Kufuor to “shut up” after he encouraged...
Claim that Joe Mettle was police before becoming gospel musician, false
Claim: A photo of Ghanaian gospel musician Joe Mettle in a police uniform has been trending on social media, with many accounts and news portals...
True! NAPO says it’s “Haram” for Muslims living in Dagbon to vote NDC
Claim: Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, asserted that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) uses Muslims for votes and suggested that it would...
Viral post claiming Mahama is offering GH₵500 to Ghanaians, false
Claim: A viral WhatsApp post claimed that Former President John Dramani Mahama is distributing campaign funds of GHS500 to Ghanaians.Verdict: False! DUBAWA’s findings revealed that the...
Fact-Check: Bawumia’s claim that Ghana has achieved ‘zero hunger’ FALSE!
Vice President and Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has claimed that Ghana is on a list of countries with...
Bawumia’s $80 bn market value claim for Spotify, false!
Claim: Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, during the launch of the Ghana Music Xperience (GMX) streaming platform at De Icon Centre on Oct 30, 2024,...
NPP’s Ishaq Ibrahim makes false inflation, COVID-19 claims about Mahama
A Communication team member of Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party, Dr. Ishaq Ibrahim, has appealed to Ghanaians to keep faith with the government despite the...
Photo of NDC’s veep endorsing NPP on showcased ballot paper, doctored!
Claim: A viral photo shared by social media accounts, including one alleging to belong to former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Central Regional Chairman Bernard Allotey Jacobs, shows NDC’s running...
FALSE! Deputy Education Minister didn’t say teachers can’t be rich
Claim: A Facebook user shared a flyer that claimed Ghana’s Deputy Education Minister, Dr John Ntim Fordjour, said no one can become rich as a “mere teacher.”
Verdict: False....
Mahama makes a false claim about Ghana’s 54% inflation being the highest in the 4th Republic
Claim: Former President John Mahama and current flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress has claimed that in the 4th Republic, Ghana’s highest inflation was...
78% of 2024 BECE candidates had aggregate 33 and above viral report, false
Claim: A Facebook user, Efo Kwesi Mawuto, has alleged that 78% of this year’s BECE candidates had an aggregate score of 33 and above, citing...
Fact card about Napo making ethnocentric comments about Gas, Ewes, false!
Claim: Multiple accounts on social media have shared a fact card claiming former Energy Minister and running mate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Dr Matthew...
Claim 8.4 million Ghanaians went a day without food, false
Claim: A quote card allegedly created by TV3 claims that “about 8.4 million Ghanaians, or 24.5% of the population, went a day without food.” This...
Misleading: ‘In 2020, NPP lost election but EC, Court rigged it for them’
Claim: A Facebook group, Hungry Youth Association of GH, is alleging that the NPP lost the elections, but the EC and the court rigged the election...
False! Ken Ofori-Atta not suffering from stroke
Claim: Some social media users and media outlets are claiming that former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta suffered a major stroke over the weekend.Verdict: False. DUBAWA’s...
Dr Bawumia’s claim Ghana will be second African country to have credit scoring system, false
Claim: Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has claimed that Ghana will become the second African country to implement a credit scoring...
Fact card about Mahama’s Indian spell comment fabricated
Claim: An X user, @KokuAnyidoho, shares a fact card alleging that former president and flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama,...
False! Ghana not only country giving laptops, tablets to high schools
Claim: Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, has claimed that Ghana is the only country in Africa that provides laptops and tablets...
Misleading! Nana Kwame Bediako’s event did not take place at Chamber of House of Commons or House of Lords
Claim: A viral video suggests that Nana Kwame Bediako delivered a speech to the UK Parliament on behalf of African leaders.Verdict: Misleading. DUBAWA’s findings reveal that...
NAPO makes false claim about Ashanti’s appointment during Mahama’s administration
Claim: Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has claimed that former President Mahama did not have an Ashanti among his ministers.Verdict: This is false. DUBAWA Ghana has found...
Claim NPP government recorded annual electricity increment of 11%, false
Claim: Dr Ezekiel Agyekum-Obeng, a communications team member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has claimed that the NPP government recorded 11% of annual electricity...
Galamsey menace: Which administration granted most mining licenses?
Introduction
Ghana heads into a crucial election on Dec 7, 2024. Several issues have headlined social and traditional media discussions ahead of the polls. Mining...
False claim pitches Haruna Iddrisu against Adongo over ‘Pork-eating Bawumia’
Claim: Multiple sources say Ghanaian opposition lawmaker Haruna Iddrisu has discredited a comment his colleague, Isaac Adongo, made in which he described the country’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu...
Debunked 1963 Accra photo circulates again in 2024
Claim: A Facebook user, Auntie Naa Official, shared a picture on Sept. 27, 2024, which she alleged was taken in Accra in 1963.Verdict: False. DUBAWA’s...
False, NPP did not swap its ballot position with a different candidate
Claim: Social media users have alleged that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Director of Elections manipulated the party’s ballot position during the presidential election balloting...
FALSE! Mining lease of Akonta Mining Ltd was issued under NPP, not NDC
Claim: Dennis Miracle Aboagye, the Spokesperson of Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2024 Campaign, says Akonta Mining Ltd, a company owned by the party’s Ashanti regional...
False. Viral video of man pumping water from borehole, not MP for Hohoe Peter Amewu
Claim: Social media users have attributed a video of a man struggling to pump water from a well with no water flowing, to Peter Amewu,...