{"id":7423,"date":"2025-11-13T07:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1307007.us31.myftpupload.com\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:23:57","slug":"fact-check-viral-clip-of-veiled-women-being-assaulted-shows-an-incident-in-ghana-not-southern-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/fact-check-viral-clip-of-veiled-women-being-assaulted-shows-an-incident-in-ghana-not-southern-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT-CHECK: Viral clip of veiled women being assaulted shows an incident in Ghana, not southern Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim: <\/strong>People from northern Nigeria are being attacked in the south<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/strong> Facebook and WhatsApp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verdict: <\/strong>False <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researched by FactSpace Newsroom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A one-minute and forty-nine seconds viral video published on Facebook by an influencer, Sheriff Almuhajir<\/a>, claimed women from northern Nigeria were being assaulted by an unidentified man in the country\u2019s largely Christian south.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video<\/a>, which was captioned in the Hausa language, showed a number of women who appeared to be beggars by a roadside, being chased and continuously whipped by a man as they scampered for their safety.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The influencer supported the video with an audio narration, a partial translation of his narration from Hausa to English, reads: \u201cI am disheartened watching this video, it is a challenge to us, northerners, Muslims. Our women with children from the north are being subjected to this kind of assault because they go to beg in the south.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same video has been widely shared on WhatsApp with the \u201cForwarded many times\u201d label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This report will fact-check the claim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact-check<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The video published on Facebook and shared on WhatsApp, claiming beggars from northern Nigeria were whipped by a man in southern Nigeria, is a video taken in Ghana, not Nigeria, as claimed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Checks by FactSpace West Africa revealed that the incident in the video happened at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange in Accra, Ghana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FactSpace West Africa traced the incident to an October 29, 2025 publication by GhanaWeb<\/a>, which reported on the video, citing posts on social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An analysis of keyframes shows concrete clues that the video was captured in Ghana, with evidence of known landmarks around the overpass at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Frame 1 shows an election poster by Samuel Apea-Danquah<\/a>, an independent candidate in Ghana\u2019s 2024 presidential race.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Frame 2 shows a signboard with mobile network numbers unique to Ghana. 055 (MTN Ghana) and 020 (Telecel Ghana).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Frame 3 also showed a passing vehicle with an AirtelTigo (0277) number on it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Two other cues were a major building within the catchment area, the GCB Bank Towers<\/a>, and a signpost that, by our analysis, read Okaikoi South Sub Metro. Our checks on the official website of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly<\/a> showed that the Nkrumah Circle area falls under this particular sub-metro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The widely circulated video showing women beggars being whipped by a man originated from Ghana, not Nigeria, as claimed by Facebook and WhatsApp posts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Verdict<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Therefore, the claim that the video was captured in Nigeria is False. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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