Emmanuel Oluwadola

Image of Indian actress manipulated to falsely depict centaur discovered in Greece

By Emmanuel Oluwadola Claim: Multiple Facebook accounts claimed that a half-human and half-horse skeleton was discovered in Greece in 1876. Verdict: False! No such discovery exists in historical records. Analysis showed that the merged image, which depicted a female centaur…

CSDI Associate Journalist Selected for African Fellowship

By Charity Michael An associate journalist and a storyteller at the Centre for Storytelling and Development Initiative (CSDI), Emmanuel Oluwadola has been selected for the 2025 Journalism for Liberty Fellowship. The fellowship, organised by the Liberalist Centre, aims to equip…

Edo mob killing: Did armed Hausa youths kill six Igbo men in the north?

By Emmanuel Oluwadola Claim: Multiple Facebook accounts claim that a group of armed Hausa youths invaded an Igbo market in the North, and killed at least six men. Full Text The recent gruesome killings of some Northern travellers went viral…

Fact-check: Video of woman harassed for eating during Ramadan on London bus old

By Emmanuel Oluwadola Claim:  A viral video shared by Instablog9ja and several online sources allegedly shows a man harassing a woman on a London bus for eating while he was fasting during the 2025 Ramadan. Full Text Ramadan is the…

Nigeria’s quiet rebellion against corruption

By Emmanuel Oluwadola “I believe things should be done the right way,” says *Mr Adewale, a Nigerian IT manager caught between the anvil and the hammer, forced to either reject cash bribes or run for his life. In 2017, he…

CSDI Founder bags PhD scholarship in the UK

…his research focuses on misinformation and electoral integrity By Emmanuel Oluwadola The founder of the Centre for Storytelling and Development Initiative (CSDI), Saheed Ibrahim has won a fully funded PhD scholarship at Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. Ibrahim, who has…
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