Claim: UN data indicates a global shortage of men, projecting 5.6 billion women and 2.2 billion men by 2025. Verdict: The widely circulated assertion that the UN’s 2025 demographic report reveals a global shortage of men is false. The UN has not published such a report; recent statistics indicate that more men than women are …
Weekly Round-Up: Top five claims DUBAWA verified last week
For the latest edition of DUBAWA’s weekly round-up, we covered controversial issues from sport, politics, and health that went viral in Nigeria. We also went beyond Nigeria’s borders to provide context for matters of public interest. Here are some of the claims we fact-checked: Sierra Leonean footballer Momoh I. Kamara won the CAF Young African …



