Hi guys! Happy to come to you today with new stuff. For one week we engaged into a fact-checking investigation to verify a piece of information seen on an Instagram post (by gistdey247) which alleged that Chioma, the fiancée of the Nigerian singer, Davido, dumped him last year in October. Below we bring you a short report the process.
I.
INSTAGRAM
We started by checking the Instagram accounts
of Chioma and Davido, as well as those of their close relationships. We didn’t
find any evidence to prove or disprove the rumour.
II.
GHANAFACTS AND AFRICACHECK.ORG.
Our fact
checking journey continued on. Here after entering the key words ‘Chioma’,
‘Davido’, ‘breakup’ we didn’t obtain any results. We didn’t give up yet.
GOOGLE RESEARCH
We went further to
check on Google. In our
Google search, we entered the key words “Chioma”, “Break UP”, Davido”. The
results directed us to some sites including the following:
-
www.stelladimokokorkus.com
www.bellanaija.com
https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/
www.naijaloaded.com
http://misspetitenaijablog.com/
https://thestreetjournal.org/
All these sites confirmed the rumors. Some even went a step further to say that Chioma even had a romantic date with a mystery guy, but with no evidence except the pictures below:
I.
CHECKING ON ENTERTAINMENT
SITES AND BLOGS
The next step of our fact check led us to top Nigerian celebrities and entertainment sites and blogs such as:
GISTMANIA (https://www.gistmania.com/)
Ø Pulse.ng
(https://www.pulse.ng/)
Ø JAGUDA.com
(https://jaguda.com/)
Ø Thenet.ngNET
(https://thenet.ng/)
Ø TooXeclusive
(https://tooxclusive.com/)
Ø NiajaLoaded
(https://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/)
Ø BellaNaija (https://www.bellanaija.com/)
Ø Some of these sites and blogs just re-echoed the rumour, yet with no tangible fact to confirm it.
Other sites such as Pulse.ng, Jaguda.com, TooXeclusive, BellaNaija came up with some updates that point to fake news. One of them is Davido’s performance of his song ‘Assurance’ which was dedicated to Chioma at Jimmy Kimmel Live on March 2021. (https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/celebrities/davido-performs-record-dedicated-to-fiancee-chioma-days-after-he-was-seen-with/y4y2rge
). Another is Chioma’s present to Davido on his birthday on 21 November 2020 (A month after the alleged breakup).
We
then carried out a Google reverse image search on pictures we got on some of
these blogs.
The aim was to find out the original context where the picture was taken.
We found out that these pictures were taken before the alleged breakup and not
after as the blog post suggested.
I.
VIDEO VERIFICATION WITH
INVID
We finally did an Invid verification on two videos
featuring Davido to check their authenticity.
Video 1:
Davido’s live performance at the American television show, Jimmy Kimmel
Live, on 2 March 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUs9o6hoMA
Video 2:
Davido steps out with a mystery woman as he is on vacation with his crew in
St Marteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v9k-dX3jCE
The
InVid analysis carried out on this video (both Key Frames and Contextual analysis)
show that the videos are authentic. There is however no cast-on-stone evidence
of a break up.
CONCLUSION
In
conclusion, though many sites and posts on the web and social media have
mentioned a break-up between Chioma and Davido, there is no tangible and
undeniable facts proving it. Some facts, however, tend to point to fake news.
These include
Ø Davido’s
performance on 2 March 2021 on a song dedicated to Chioma (Assurance).
Ø The
Birthday gift offered to Davido by Chioma on 21 November 2020 (when rumours say
they broke up in October 2020).
While
waiting for more evidence in favour or against the rumour, we can just consider
this rumour as what it is: a simple rumour, a fake.
BY: - GRACE BENEWAH
- JONATHAN BRIGHT KWAW
- JACQUELINE YEBOAA OWUSU
- MICHELLE ANSU-ASUMA
- NDZOMO VALERY JOEL MBIDA
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