Foremost fact check outfit, Dubawa has inducted an NOA Officer, Aisha Ali among other inductees from Nigeria and other African countries having successfully completed Fact Check Fellowship.The event, Kwame Karikari Fact Check Fellowship was held in Abuja which featured other inductees from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gambia and Ghana.

Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr. Garba Abari was represented at the event by his Special Assistant, David Akoji. He commended Dubawa for what he described as institutionalising process to deal with misinformation and disinformation through its noble intervention.

He urged inductees to bring to the fore in their respective countries, knowledge and skills learnt in the course of the fellowship. The event also witnessed presentation of best fact check award to joint winners of this edition.NOA and Dubawa have established relationship with initiative to train 37,000 fact checkers across Nigeria. This effort is geared towards fighting fake news believed to be responsible for ethno-religious and political crises in Nigeria.

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