{"id":6146,"date":"2024-10-25T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1307007.us31.myftpupload.com\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2024-12-27T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:26:00","slug":"fact-check-nigerias-chief-of-army-staff-taoreed-lagbaja-is-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/fact-check-nigerias-chief-of-army-staff-taoreed-lagbaja-is-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT-CHECK: Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja is not dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claim: <\/b>Chief of Army Staff dies of cancer<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/b> Jackson Ude \/ X<\/span><\/p>\n

Verdict: <\/b>False<\/span><\/p>\n

Researched by Hamza Ibrahim<\/b><\/p>\n

Viral claims shared by Nigerian X users have suggested the country\u2019s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen.Taoreed Lagbaja has died abroad while receiving treatment for stage three cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FactSpace Nigeria\u2019s investigation revealed that Jackson Ude (<\/span>@jacksonpbn<\/span><\/a>), a popular government critic, was the first to share the claim on October 20, 2024, before it went viral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCHIEF OF ARMY STAFF DIES OF CANCER The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has died. Lagbaja died in an undisclosed hospital overseas nearly 48hrs ago from a stage three Cancer, according to a senior Government official,\u201d his <\/span>post read<\/span><\/a> in part.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We observed that the post had amassed significant interactions – reshared 531 times, viewed by over 146,000 users and received more than 200 comments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people who quoted the tweet credited Ude for the information while accusing the army of being silent over the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

This report seeks to verify the accuracy of the claim.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fact-check\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The Nigerian Army debunked the claim of the death of the Chief of Army Staff via its official X <\/span>account<\/span><\/a> on October 20.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Army\u2019s <\/span>official handle<\/span><\/a> posted a screenshot of the claim as shared by Jackson with a \u201cFake News\u201d label\u00a0 slapped across it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

To deepen the claim of Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja\u2019s death, another claim emerged that Defence Headquarters had appointed an acting Chief of Army Staff ostensibly to replace Lagbaja.<\/span><\/p>\n

That claim was also <\/span>debunked and labelled as \u201cFake News.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Defence Headquarters, through their official handle <\/span>@DefenceInfoNG<\/span><\/a> posted a statement on X: \u201cPRESS RELEASE: DHQ CLARIFIES: No Appointment of Acting COAS; Calls For Military Coup Is Treasonable,\u201d the heading stated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Verdict<\/b><\/p>\n

FactSpace Nigeria’s investigation shows that the claim that Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja had died is False.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: Chief of Army Staff dies of cancer Source: Jackson Ude \/ X Verdict: False Researched by Hamza…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"coauthors":[504],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nigeria"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}],"post_tag":[{"value":35,"label":"Nigeria"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Taoreed-Lagbaja-1024x655.jpg",1024,655,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Shaban Abdur Rahman Alfa","author_link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/author\/shaban-abdur-rahman-alfa\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":38,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":38,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":35,"name":"Nigeria","slug":"nigeria","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":35,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":38,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}