{"id":246581,"date":"2026-10-08T03:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fact-checking-2026-independence-day-claims-by-nigerian-president-bola-tinubu\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:30:18","slug":"nigeria-fact-checking-2026-independence-day-claims-by-nigerian-president-bola-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fact-checking-2026-independence-day-claims-by-nigerian-president-bola-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Fact-Checking 2026 Independence Day Claims By Nigerian President Bola Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>Fact-checking 2026 Independence Day claims by Nigerian president Bola Tinubu <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several of Tinubu&#8217;s claims are supported by the data. Nigeria&#8217;s economy grew by just over 4% in the first half of 2026, foreign reserves have risen substantially, and non-oil exports reached a record US$6.1 billion in 2025.<\/li>\n<li>But oil sector growth has been more volatile than claimed, the fall in inflation was due in part to a change in how it is measured, and there have been instances of federal salaries being paid late.<\/li>\n<p>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610070473.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact-checking 2026 Independence Day claims by Nigerian president Bola Tinubu Several of Tinubu&#8217;s claims are supported by the data. Nigeria&#8217;s economy grew by just over 4% in the first half of 2026, foreign reserves have risen substantially, and non-oil exports reached a record US$6.1 billion in 2025. But oil sector growth has been more volatile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8307,8117,7165,14837,7690,257,4687,393,482,2450,254,8308],"class_list":["post-246581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bola","tag-claims","tag-day","tag-factchecking","tag-independence","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}