PREMIUM TIMES journalist Kabiru Yusuf has emerged as the runner-up in the Working Journalist category at the African Fact-Checking awards, the longest-running awards programme honouring fact-checking journalism in Africa.
The award was held on Thursday at a Gala Night in Nairobi, Kenya, marking the end of the inaugural Africa Facts Summit 2022.
Mr Yusuf’s fact-check of President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim of “leaving Nigeria better than he found it” won the coveted runner-up award.
The report, published in July, examined the three areas of governance that Mr Buhari was asked about in his June interview with Bloomberg – corruption, security, and the economy.
Using internationally recognized metrics, Mr Yusuf’s fact-check found the president’s claim to be largely false. All economic indices have got worse under Mr Buhari’s administration while security and anti-corruption cannot be said to have improved in the last seven years.
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