FALSE! Prof Frimpong Boateng didn’t say John Mahama owns a galamsey site
Claim: An X user, Gen Buhari, claims Prof. Frimpong Boateng, a former Environment, Science and Technology Minister, accused ex-Ghanaian President John Mahama of owning an illegal mining site.
Verdict:...
FALSE! Prof Frimpong Boateng didn’t say John Mahama has a galamsey site
Claim: An X user, Gen Buhari, claims Prof. Frimpong Boateng, a former Environment, Science and Technology Minister, accused ex-Ghanaian President John Mahama of owning an illegal mining site.
Verdict:...
False: viral video of man pumping water from borehole, not Hohoe MP, 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,...
NPP’s manifesto subcommittee chairman on economy makes misleading claims on budget data
Claim: Chairman of the New Patriotic Party’s Manifesto Subcommittee on the economy, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has claimed that the GDP growth and the budget deficit...
Mahama’s aide shares misleading post about Kintampo Waterfall
Claim: Beatrice Annan, a deputy spokesperson of ex-Ghanaian President John Mahama, has shared a video of a muddied waterfall purportedly filmed in 2024, which she blamed...
Mahama makes false claim about Ghana’s power-generating capacity
Claim: John Dramani Mahama, the 2024 flagbearer of Ghana’s opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), says the party increased the country’s power-generating capacity from 1,810 megawatts in 2007 to...
Ghanaian legislator Frank Annoh-Dompreh draws false comparison with Koreans
Claim: Frank Annoh-Dompreh, a lawmaker with Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), claims that one unique attribute of Koreans is that they retain a well-performing government.
Verdict:...
FALSE! Asamoah Gyan didn’t call out NPP as ‘unserious’
Claim: Multiple sources say Asamoah Gyan, an ex-Ghana Black Stars striker, has described the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) as unserious and regretted joining their campaign team.
Verdict:...
Fact check: Photo of Samira Bawumia with NDC umbrella, doctored
Claim: The National Youth Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Opare Addo, has shared an image purportedly showing Ghana’s Second Lady, Samira Bawumia,...
Fact check: FALSE! Ghana received over ȼ21bn COVID-19 support, not ȼ27bln
Claim: Ex-Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has alleged that the country’s financial support from the international community during the COVID-19 pandemic was GHȼ27 billion.
Verdict: False. DUBAWA’s probe showed...
FALSE! Ghana received over ȼ21bn COVID-19 support, not ȼ27bln
Claim: Ex-Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has alleged that the country’s financial support from the international community during the COVID-19 pandemic was GHȼ27 billion.
Verdict: False. DUBAWA’s probe showed...
Fact check: Haruna Iddrisu makes misleading claims about Ghana’s public debts and inflation
An opposition Ghanaian lawmaker, Haruna Iddrisu, has berated Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the country’s “worst” cost of living.The former Employment and Labour...
Fact check: Isaac Adongo’s claim on current budget deficit, false
Claim: The NDC’s economic spokesperson, Isaac Adongo, has claimed that Ghana has a revenue budget of about 176 billion cedis and a deficit of about...
Fact check: Former MASLOC deputy CEO, Afia Akoto’s public debt statement proven false
The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Afia Akoto, has registered her discontent with public claims that the governing New...
Fact Check: Misleading! Asphaltic overlays in Hohoe were done in 2020
Claim: A Facebook user posted images claiming that new roads are being constructed in Hohoe township in the Volta Region.
Verdict: Misleading. DUBAWA’s findings reveal that the pictures are...
Fact Check: Misleading! World Bank did not commend Akufo-Addo for ‘stronger and better’ banking sector
Claim: The World Bank has commended Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo for strengthening the country’s banking sector, a viral WhatsApp message alleges.Verdict: Misleading. DUBAWA’s Investigations showed that the Bretton...
Fact Check: NDC Manifesto: Mahama’s claims on budget deficit, COCOBOD false
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) unveiled its manifesto on Saturday, August 24, 2024, presenting a detailed strategy aimed at revitalizing Ghana’s economy, reducing economic...
Fact Check: NDC Manifesto: Claim food inflation currently stands at 50% false
Claim: The Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi, Yusif Sulemana, has claimed that Ghana’s food inflation currently stands at 50%. Verdict: False. Data from the Ghana Statistical Service...
Fact Check: Misleading! Ghana’s industrial sub-sector did not collapse in 2016
Claim: Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the 2024 flagbearer of Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), says industrial growth in the country had collapsed due to erratic power...
100 Days to Elections Campaign Launch: Fact-Check before bringing things out – Political Analyst to media
A political analyst and lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Thomas Buabeng, has urged media across the country to ensure they do fact-checking...
Six Kamala Harris claims fact-checked
Kamala Harris has been holding rallies across the US as she campaigns against Donald Trump, and will appear in Milwaukee on Tuesday ahead of...
GSS advocates for independence to fact-check figures, data from government
The Government Statistician, Prof Samuel Kobina Anim, has advocated a strong National Statistical System that will be independent and will not be influenced by...
AI, journalism and fact-checking in Ghana; navigating the maze
The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the news industry will transform newsroom practice, scale the work of media outlets, improve the efficiency of...
40 African journalists and researchers benefit from CJID, DUBAWA Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking Fellowship
The Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development (CJID) and DUBAWA have commenced training for forty journalists and researchers across Africa.The 40 fellows will...
Fact-check: Did Ghana miss November 1 IMF timeline?
Government has been insistingq in the last few days that it had not missed a November 1 IMF timeline for the fulfillment of conditions to...
Fact Check- News broadcast claiming that nuclear war is imminent between Russia and NATO recirculates
BBC News did not air a segment claiming that nuclear war is imminent between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A clip...
Samson’s Take: Checking and publishing fact – that’s basic journalism
I must sound like a broken record on this subject. But we must keep talking, educating and debating until we get rid of the...
Fact check: An ex-CIA agent did not confess to infecting Bob Marley with fatal cancer
The claim is several years old, but a 2019 post to the Instagram page Submit Conspiracy Theories recently gained renewed attention.The page is a place for followers...
Fact-check: Did the NPP promise to build a harbour in Cape Coast?
President Nana Akufo-Addo has said on a Cape Coast-based radio station, Eagle FM, that he never promised to build a harbour in the Central...
Fact-Check: Has President Akufo-Addo signed a Bill Gates coronavirus vaccine pact?
Social media commentary captured in a news publication here claims that Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has committed Ghana to a vaccine pact to receive...
Compulsory coronavirus vaccines in the UK, other rumours fact-checked
We’ve been fact-checking the most widely shared dubious coronavirus claims this week.There’s no mandatory vaccine law in UKFirst, we’ve looked at a widely shared...
Fact check: Govt accused of lying to Ghanaians, find out what it is
On April 13, 2020, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a statement approving the disbursement of US$1 billion credit facility to the...