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Sunday, October 12, 2025

DISINFO ALERT: This YouTube channel regularly publishes false claims about Nigerian celebrities - TheCable Fact Check

A YouTube page identified as Nigerian News is home to several videos containing false claims about famous Nigerian celebrities.

The page, which has over 3000 subscribers, focuses on celebrity marriages, their careers, alleged divorces, unproven health status, alleged paternity fraud, and deaths.

Findings by CableCheck showed that the page was created on August 21, 2025. Between then and now, Nigerian News has published about 55 videos, many of which are filled with falsehoods.

Most of the videos have clickbait captions such as “Genevieve Nnaji is now over 46 and her life is sad”; “At 68, Kwam 1 finally admitted what we suspected”; “At 78, Pete Edochie broke his silence and shocked the world”; and “Farewell to Segun Arinze whose death at the age of 59 shocked the world”.

The first video uploaded on the YouTube page claimed that Innocent Idibia, the Nigerian singer popularly known as 2face, had divorced Natasha Osawaru Idibia, the Edo state house of assembly member that he recently married. Different videos of the singer were merged into a montage to push the narrative, accompanied by a voice-over.

The narrator said the marriage lasted a year. However, Tuface and Natasha had their traditional wedding in July 2025, and the couple is still together.

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Earlier in September, the YouTube page claimed that Ebenezer Obey, the ace Nigerian Juju singer, had died at the age of 83.

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