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STOP MISLEADING THE PUBLIC: THE ABIA HOTELS STORY IS AN ALLEGATION, NOT A COURT VERDICT The report on Abia Hotels is presented as though illegality has already been established. It has not. What the publication contains is largely the account and accusations of Investment Guarantee Limited. No judgment, restraining order, inventory report, valuation certificate, police report or documentary evidence establishing the alleged “illegal sale of over ₦600 million assets” was reproduced. Here are the major holes and half-truths: IT CONCEALS THE CENTRAL ISSUE: THE HOTEL IS AN ABIA STATE ASSET Investment Guarantee Limited was not the original owner of Abia…

TO THOSE STILL QUESTIONING THE FACTS ABOUT THE ABIA STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE… CAN WE NOW REST? 🤣😂 They said there was no construction.They said it was propaganda.They said the Government House existed only on social media. Now the Honourable Minister of Education has physically toured the ongoing Governor’s Office and Governor’s Lodge, while workers were visibly on site. What shall we call this one again—computer-generated scaffolding? Imported workers? Or an imaginary building captured by a real camera? 🤣🤣 The structure is rising. The evidence is visible. The doubters are now searching for another complaint. Abia is working. Facts do not…

WHO IS AFRAID OF AI-ASSISTED FACT-CHECKING? A new discipline is quietly changing public debate: AI-assisted digital verification, also called computational fact-checking. It combines artificial intelligence, internet search, document analysis, data comparison, image examination and source tracing to test claims against available evidence. For decades, misinformation prospered because verification was slow. A person could manufacture a quotation, remove a statement from context, confuse a proposed budget with actual expenditure, recycle an old photograph or present an allegation as an established fact. Before the truth travelled through libraries, archives and government records, the lie had already toured WhatsApp, Facebook and political meetings.…