{"id":247130,"date":"2026-10-14T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-doctored-image-falsely-shows-nigerian-president-bola-tinubu-at-81st-un-general-assembly\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:00:05","slug":"nigeria-doctored-image-falsely-shows-nigerian-president-bola-tinubu-at-81st-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-doctored-image-falsely-shows-nigerian-president-bola-tinubu-at-81st-un-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Doctored Image Falsely Shows Nigerian President Bola Tinubu At 81st UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Doctored image falsely shows Nigerian president Bola Tinubu at 81st UN General Assembly<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A doctored image has been shared as evidence that Nigerian president Bola Tinubu attended the 81st United Nations General Assembly in the US in September 2026. But the presidency confirmed that his deputy Kashim Shettima represented Nigeria at the gathering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Some Facebook users have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1ckWcFJS3W\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> an image they claim shows Nigeria&#8217;s president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Bola-Tinubu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bola Tinubu<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/sdg.iisd.org\/events\/81st-session-of-the-un-general-assembly-unga-81\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 81st<\/a> United Nations General Assembly in the&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610140389.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>Doctored image falsely shows Nigerian president Bola Tinubu at 81st UN General Assembly IN SHORT: A doctored image has been shared as evidence that Nigerian president Bola Tinubu attended the 81st United Nations General Assembly in the US in September 2026. But the presidency confirmed that his deputy Kashim Shettima represented Nigeria at the gathering. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247131,"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":[55516,258,256,7269,8307,41305,21307,6768,16371,257,4687,393,482,2450,7779,254,8308],"class_list":["post-247130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-81st","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-bola","tag-doctored","tag-falsely","tag-general","tag-image","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-president","tag-shows","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\/247130","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=247130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}