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  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Ọ̀rọ̀ ǹ pààyàn.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Dokita, voiced by Titilayo Akande; Lemọọmu, voiced by Amoo Abass; Taye Alaga, voiced by Ajibola Akinyefa; Ṣaki Ọmọleewe, voiced by Elizabeth Bamgbose; Iya Ṣaki Onigaari, voiced by Sekinat Adegoke; and Baba Mufu Onidanfo, voiced by Adeola Omotade.

    Story Idea: Iya Ṣaki Onigaari and Lemọọmu did all they could to get vaccinated but alas, it is already too late. Iya Ṣaki contracts COVID-19 again but this time, she didn't make it out alive. Saamu Eleti-Erin was later arrested but he had caused enough damage than he could ever repair.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Imú Níkà.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Ṣaki Ọmọleewe, voiced by Elizabeth Bamgbose; Baba Mufu Onidanfo, voiced by Adeola Omotade; Iya Ṣaki Onigaari, voiced by Sekinat Adegoke; Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Taye Alaga, voiced by Ajibola Akinyefa; and Lemọọmu, voiced by Amoo Abass.

    Story Idea: This is the last chance for the people of Ẹni-Afẹ to take the first batch of vaccine that was sent to them. Or else, it will be distributed to other communities who had exhausted theirs. This is also the last chance Saamu is waiting for before he would free his accomplice, Akọwe, from the psychiatric hospital. He lied to the members of his community that the vaccine killed a student and all other students, including their teachers ran out of their class to avoid being vaccinated. The news terrified members of his community and further dissuade them from taking the vaccine, it was later revealed that Saamu himself had received the vaccine.

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  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Ẹní Jẹ Tẹ̀tẹ̀.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Dokita, voiced by Titilayo Akande; Anti Nọọsi, voiced by Elizabeth Bamgbose; Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; and Akowe, voiced by Adebayo Aare.

    Story Idea: Saamu Eleti-Erin continued Akọwe’s mission of misinforming his community about the COVID-19 vaccine. He took up Tafa Alajọ's job so he will have the means to distribute fake news without anyone suspecting him. He advised Anti Nọọsi not to take the vaccine as it would block her womb and make her barren for life. At the end of the play, Dokita debunk the rumor and Anti Nọọsi went for the vaccine.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Wèrè Aláṣọ.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Taye Alaga, voiced by Ajibola Akinyefa; Dokita, voiced by Titilayo Akande; Akowe, voiced by Adebayo Aare; and Ganiu Arọwaasi, voiced by Ibrahim Agbaje;

    Story Idea: Akọwe called on Saamu Eleti-Erin once again to distribute fake news that the COVID-19 vaccine was created by world leaders to turn the whole world to zombies that'll never be able to defy their orders. Akowe put on an act to reinforce the false information but at the end of the play, he ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Ìjíhìnrere Ọ̀tẹlẹ̀múyẹ́.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Wolii, voiced by Olamide Folahanmi; Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Iya Ṣaki Onigaari, voiced by Sekinat Adegoke; Lemọọmu, voiced by Amoo Abass; Arọwaasi, voiced by Ibrahim Agbaje; Baba Mufu Onidanfo and Atumọ, voiced by Adeola Omotade;

    Story Idea: Wolii claimed the angels told him that Taye Alaga and Akọwe took malaria dose to lure the people of his community into taking the COVID-19 vaccine. But upon hearing the death of Tafa Alajọ who defied the lockdown law, he secretly went to one of the certified spot to receive the COVID-19 vaccine but he was caught by Saamu Eleti-Erin who has a grudge against him. He blew his cover.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Ọ̀nà Ọ̀fun, Ọ̀nà Ọ̀run.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Akọwe, voiced by Adebayo Aare; Dokita, voiced by Titilayo Akande; Taye Alaga, voiced by Ajibola Akinyefa; and Baba Mufu Onidanfo, voiced by; Adeola Omotade.

    Story Idea: Akọwe hired Saamu Eleti-Erin as a false information agent to dissuade the members of his community from taking the COVID19 vaccine. Things later fell on him in a way that he himself has no choice but to take the vaccine.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Odù Kòró Méjì.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Fatọpẹ Ooguntiojẹ, voiced by Ibrahim Agbaje; Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; and Baba Mufu Onidanfo, voiced by; Adeola Omotade.

    Story Idea: Saamu Eleti-Erin meets with Fatọpẹ Ooguntiojẹ, a quack herbalist, to look into his knowledge of herbs, to devise a formula that would cure COVID-19. Fatọpẹ received ₦40,000 from Saamu, but at the end of the day, he gave him Ewedu leaves which he called the spirit's leaves. He claimed that he went all the way to heaven's backyard to get the leaves. Saamu saw that all he received from Fatọpẹ was Ewedu leaf and this caused trouble between him and the priest.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Kòró Ayélujára.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Iya Ṣaki Onigaari, voiced by Sekinat Adegoke; Ṣaki Ọmọleewe, voiced by Elizabeth Bamgbose; and Dókítà, voiced by Titilayo Akande.

    Story Idea: Saamu Eleti-Erin paid a visit Iya Ṣaki Onigaari where he met Ṣaki Ọmọleewe using her mother's phone to source solutions for his assignments online. Saamu told her mother how dangerous it is for her to allow Ṣaki to browse the internet as this could expose her to the deadly coronavirus. Iya Ṣaki believed Saamu and even went for a checkup to know if she is still free from the virus. Dokita will be the one to debunk Saamu's claim with facts that he could not respond to.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Omi Kọ̀mpútà.

    The characters featured in this episode are: Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Baba Mufu Onidanfo, voiced by Adeola Omotade; Wolii, voiced by Olamide Folahanmi; and Dókítà, voiced by Titilayo Akande.

    Story Idea: Saamu Eleti-Erin, transports a rumour he heard from the city to his community that the vaccine is a "computer water" that could be used to control anyone who allows health workers to administer it to his/her body. Dokita will be the one to debunk this rumor with unchallengeable facts.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Náńkàlí Kòró. 

    The characters featured in this episode are: Lemọọmu, voiced by Amoo Abass; Ganiu Arọwaasi, voiced by Ibrahim Agbaje; and Dókítà, voiced by Titilayo Akande. 

    Story Idea: Lemọọmu, the community Islamic cleric, implored his Muslim brothers and sisters to observe their solat in the mosque instead of praying in their own homes as the COVID-19 protocol suggests. He claims the COVID-19 theory is nothing but a trick by Christians to stop Muslims from observing their Islamic rites. He advised his congregation to recite some Quranic verses in a cup of water and drink that every morning to protect them from any disease or illness. At the end of this episode, Lemọọmu himself contracted COVID-19. After he narrowly escaped death, on his way out of isolation, Ganiu Arọwaasi, brought a mammoth crowd to welcome him back to the society.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Ogun Èṣù. 

    The characters featured in this episode are: Taye Alaga, voiced by Ajibola Akinyefa; Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Wolii Abẹ Igi Mangoro, voiced by Olamide Folahanmi; Atumọ, voiced by Adeola Omotade; and Anti Nọọsi, voiced by Elizabeth Bamgbose. 

    Story Idea: The Wolii told members of his church that there is no such thing as COVID-19, dubbed it as a means that the devil and his children in the government house devised to stop people from going to church when they knew Jesus is about to return. Meanwhile, Anti Nọọsi was declared wanted by Taye Alaga for not submitting herself to the NCDC after contracting COVID-19 and transmitting it to Tafa Alajọ. She later went to meet Wolii for spiritual help, but upon seeing her coughing at the entrance of the church, Wolii ran away and called the NCDC.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of this episode is Ẹní Jẹ Gbì. 

    The characters featured in this episode are: Taye Alaga, voiced by Ajibola Akinyefa; Saamu Eleti-Erin, voiced by Olatunde Falola; Iya Ṣaki Onigaari, voiced by Sekinat Adegoke; Baba Mufu Onidanfo, voiced by Adeola Omotade; Anti Nọọsi, voiced by Elizabeth Bamgbose; and Tafa Alajọ, voiced by Adebayo Aare. 

    Story Idea: Tafa Alajọ, a local thrift collector, refused to obey the lockdown laws for his daily business. He set out to the community, moving from one house to the other to receive his customers' savings. He had a talk with Saamu Eleti-Erin who further embolden him that COVID-19 is a poor man's disease, especially for people like them who lives in rural area and feed on fresh vegetables. Later, he (Tafa Alajọ) contracted the disease from the local pharmacist, Anti Nurse, and from there, he contracted it to everywhere he stopped by to collect thrift. It will later be revealed that he enhanced the spread of COVID-19 with his business.

  • The radio drama series, Àrùn ń rìnhòòhò is aimed at disbanding the rumors and misinformation related with COVID-19 & its vaccines. The title of the maiden episode is Kòró Mẹgbẹ́ ẹ̀.  

    The characters featured in this episode are: Taye Alaga, voiced by Ajibola Akinyefa; Iya Ajao, voiced by Sekinat Adegoke; Dokita, voiced by Titilayo Akande; Akọwe, voiced by Adebayo Aare; and Anti Nọọsi, voiced by Elizabeth Bamgbose  

    Story Idea: Taye Alaga, the Chairman of Ẹni-Afẹ community, traveled to Benin Republic for a three days vacation. Upon his return, he was advised by Dokita who gave him a medical check up to isolate himself for the next 14 days as directed by the government to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Taye Alaga ignored this advise, without knowing that he had already contracted the virus. He unknowingly transmitted it to his friend, Akọwe, and elder sister, Iya Ajao, who also transmitted it to Anti Nurse in her bid to get a cure for what she thought was malaria. At the end of the day, all other three, including Taye Alaga, who first contracted the virus survived it. But Iya Ajao, who is an elderly person did not. She died at the end of the first play. The cause of her death will be revealed and traced to her younger brother, Taye Alaga.

  • The campaign to get more people vaccinated against the coronavirus across the world has been met with serious resistance from anti-vaxxers and others who are hesitant about taking the shot due to some concerns.

    One of such concerns is the fear that the vaccines would alter or modify the DNA of those who took them. This fear, like many others about the vaccines continues to spread widely on social media where people who are skeptical about the vaccine have shared them as justification for not taking the vaccines.

    Our anchor, Adebayo Aare examined the claim that one’s DNA can be modified by COVID-19 vaccines. It was discovered that claim stating that coronavirus vaccines can alter human DNA started after a misrepresentation of a non-peer-reviewed article that was published in December 2020. The authors of the controversial study, which included two respected biologists from MIT, claimed that the novel coronavirus could modify human DNA. Mind you, the study did not say the vaccine could alter the human DNA but that the virus itself could.

    Even at that many experts heavily criticised the conclusion of the study describing it as “strong, dangerous and largely unsupported." However, a conspiracy theory blog, Algora.com, took the report of the study and turned it on its head with the headline: “MIT & Harvard Study Suggests mRNA Vaccine Might Permanently Alter DNA After All," from there, the claim went viral after the misleading article was shared widely on social media.

    We interviewed an expert, Dr. Bamidele Iwalokun, a molecular biologist with the Nigerian Institute Of Medical Research (NIMR) who shed more light on the rumour and tell us more about why the COVID-19 vaccine cannot alter our DNA. From our interview and rigorous research analyses from renowned medical organization, we arrived at our verdict for this week, press play to know our VERDICT on the viral claim.

    The Production Team for this week’s episode are:

    Olakunle Mohammed – Project Manager

    Nicholas Ibekwe – Researcher and Assistant Producer

    Oluwatosin Ologun – Producer

    Adebayo Aare – Presenter

  • The campaign to get more people vaccinated against the coronavirus across the world has been met with serious resistance from anti-vaxxers and others who are hesitant about taking the shot due to some concerns.   

    One of such concerns is the fear that the vaccines would alter or modify the DNA of those who took them. This fear, like many others about the vaccines continues to spread widely on social media where people who are skeptical about the vaccine have shared them as justification for not taking the vaccines. 

    Our anchor, Zainab Sanni, examined the claim that one’s DNA can be modified by COVID-19 vaccines. It was discovered that claim stating that coronavirus vaccines can alter human DNA started after a misrepresentation of a non-peer-reviewed article that was published in December 2020. The authors of the controversial study, which included two respected biologists from MIT, claimed that the novel coronavirus could modify human DNA. Mind you, the study did not say the vaccine could alter the human DNA but that the virus itself could. 

    Even at that many experts heavily criticised the conclusion of the study describing it as “strong, dangerous and largely unsupported." However, a conspiracy theory blog, Algora.com, took the report of the study and turned it on its head with the headline: “MIT & Harvard Study Suggests mRNA Vaccine Might Permanently Alter DNA After All," from there, the claim went viral after the misleading article was shared widely on social media. 

    We interviewed an expert, Dr. Bamidele Iwalokun, a molecular biologist with the Nigerian Institute Of Medical Research (NIMR) who shed more light on the rumour and tell us more about why the COVID-19 vaccine cannot alter our DNA. From our interview and rigorous research analyses from renowned medical organization, we arrived at our verdict for this week, press play to know our VERDICT on the viral claim.  

    The Production Team for this week’s episode are:  

    Olakunle Mohammed – Project Manager  

    Nicholas Ibekwe – Researcher and Assistant Producer  

    Oluwatosin Ologun – Producer

    Zainab Sanni – Presenter

  • Sometime in December 2020, prominent anti-vaccine campaigners started a buzz on social media, expressing concerns that the COVID-19 vaccine causes infertility in some women. 

    Our anchor, Adebayo Aare examined the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous to women reproductive health and could cause infertility. The origin of this claim can be traced to a December 1, 2020 letter sent by two European anti-vaccination activists to the European Medicines Agency claiming that the COVID-19 “vaccine contains a spike protein called syncytin-1 [that is] vital for the human placenta in women.” This claim generated controversy and topical discussions on social media after Sherri Tenpenny, a prominent anti-vaxxer claimed that the COVID-19 “can bind to the ovary” and that the vaccines are part of a plot by “the globalists and the de-population eugenicists, the stated Satanists who are out to destroy the world.” 

    By April 2021, the claim had spread further after prominent feminist author turn anti-vaccination activist, Naomi Wolf, posted a link to a Facebook group claiming “hundreds of women on this page say that they are having bleeding/clotting after vaccination, or that they bleed oddly AROUND vaccinated women. Unconfirmed, needs more investigation, but lots of reports.” We spoke with Dr. Akinyode, who is an epidemiologist throws more light on the claim that the Covid-19 vaccine causes infertility. 

    From our interview and rigorous research analyses from renowned medical organization, we arrived at our verdict for this week, press play to know our VERDICT on the viral claim. 

    The Production Team for this week’s episode are: 

    Olakunle Mohammed – Project Manager 

    Nicholas Ibekwe – Researcher and Assistant Producer 

    Oluwatosin Ologun – Producer

    Adebayo Aare – Presenter

  • Sometime in December 2020, prominent anti-vaccine campaigners started a buzz on social media, expressing concerns that the COVID-19 vaccine causes infertility in some women.

    Our anchor, Zainab Sanni examined the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous to women reproductive health and could cause infertility.

    The origin of this claim can be traced to a December 1, 2020 letter sent by two European anti-vaccination activists to the European Medicines Agency claiming that the COVID-19 “vaccine contains a spike protein called syncytin-1 [that is] vital for the human placenta in women.” This claim generated controversy and topical discussions on social media after Sherri Tenpenny, a prominent anti-vaxxer claimed that the COVID-19 “can bind to the ovary” and that the vaccines are part of a plot by “the globalists and the de-population eugenicists, the stated Satanists who are out to destroy the world.”

    By April 2021, the claim had spread further after prominent feminist author turn anti-vaccination activist, Naomi Wolf, posted a link to a Facebook group claiming “hundreds of women on this page say that they are having bleeding/clotting after vaccination, or that they bleed oddly AROUND vaccinated women. Unconfirmed, needs more investigation, but lots of reports.”

    We spoke with Dr. Akinyode, who is an epidemiologist throws more light on the claim that the Covid-19 vaccine causes infertility. From our interview and rigorous research analyses from renowned medical organization, we arrived at our verdict for this week, press play to know our VERDICT on the viral claim.

    The Production Team for this week’s episode are:

    Olakunle Mohammed – Project Manager

    Nicholas Ibekwe – Researcher and Assistant Producer

    Oluwatosin Ologun – Producer

    Zainab Sanni – Presenter

  • In 2020, as the race to develop vaccines to roll back the spread of the coronavirus outbreak which has reached a pandemic proportion, news started spreading on social media and even on some traditional media that the vaccines that were being developed contain microchips which will be implanted in people upon being injected with the vaccine to monitor them. 

    On this episode, our anchor, Adebayo Aare, queried the claim that those who take the COVID-19 vaccines are implanted with microchips that have been put in the vaccines. In March 2020, billionaire and philanthropist, Bill Gates in a chat of the social media site, Reddit, about the pandemic suggested that a time will come when everyone might be required to a digital passport showing their health records. A Swedish biohacking website reported the Reddit discussion of the former richest man in the world with the headline: “Bill Gates will use microchip implants to fight coronavirus.” Since then, the claim has gained massive acclaim by anti-vaxxers through the preaching of Adam Fannin, an American Baptist televangelist and Roger Stone, a former political strategist to a former US President Donald Trump. In Nigeria, two prominent televangelists—Chris Oyakhilome and Chris Okotie—are at the forefront of this rumour and teaching that vaccine is the 666 biblical mark of the beast swollen and that Gates has an agenda to depopulate the earth with it. 

    We interviewed Mr. Aliyu Olateju, an ICT expert, who talked about how microchips can be infused into vaccines and if it’s possible that this is contained in the COVID-19 vaccine. And also spoke to Dr. Akinyode, an epidemiologist who talked about microchips inside the COVID-19 vaccine. These twin interviews bring us to our verdict for this week, press play to know our VERDICT on the viral claim. 

    The Production Team for this week’s episode are: 

    Olakunle Mohammed – Project Manager 

    Nicholas Ibekwe – Researcher and Assistant Producer 

    Oluwatosin Ologun – Producer

    Adebayo Aare – Presenter

  • In 2020, as the race to develop vaccines to roll back the spread of the coronavirus outbreak which has reached a pandemic proportion, news started spreading on social media and even on some traditional media that the vaccines that were being developed contain microchips which will be implanted in people upon being injected with the vaccine to monitor them. 

    On this episode, our anchor, Zainab Sanni, queried the claim that those who take the COVID-19 vaccines are implanted with microchips that have been put in the vaccines. In March 2020, billionaire and philanthropist, Bill Gates in a chat of the social media site, Reddit, about the pandemic suggested that a time will come when everyone might be required to a digital passport showing their health records. 

    A Swedish biohacking website reported the Reddit discussion of the former richest man in the world with the headline: “Bill Gates will use microchip implants to fight coronavirus.” Since then, the claim has gained massive acclaim by anti-vaxxers through the preaching of Adam Fannin, an American Baptist televangelist and Roger Stone, a former political strategist to a former US President Donald Trump. In Nigeria, two prominent televangelists—Chris Oyakhilome and Chris Okotie—are at the forefront of this rumour and teaching that vaccine is the 666 biblical mark of the beast swollen and that Gates has an agenda to depopulate the earth with it. 

    We interviewed Mr. Aliyu Olateju, an ICT expert, who talked about how microchips can be infused into vaccines and if it’s possible that this is contained in the COVID-19 vaccine. And also spoke to Dr. Akinyode, an epidemiologist who talked about microchips inside the COVID-19 vaccine. These twin interviews bring us to our verdict for this week, press play to know our VERDICT on the viral claim. 

    The Production Team for this week’s episode are: 

    Olakunle Mohammed – Project Manager 

    Nicholas Ibekwe – Researcher and Assistant Producer 

    Oluwatosin Ologun – Producer

    Zainab Sanni – Presenter

  • As the world struggled to end the coronavirus pandemic through vaccination, we have had to deal with obvious disinformation and misinformation about the virus and its vaccines.    

    On this episode, our anchor, Adebayo Aare, looked at at the viral claim that “coronavirus vaccines causes magnetism.” Sometime in May, videos of people sticking spoons and coins to their arms whilst claiming the objects stuck to their bodies after they took the Covid-19 vaccine started circulating online. These claims then went viral in June after Dr Sherri Tenpenny, a prominent American anti-vaxxer and author of the book, “Saying No to Vaccines”, told Ohio lawmakers the coronavirus vaccine causes an increase in protein that makes “a metal attached to it.”  

    To debunk this claim, we interviewed Dr. B A. Iwalokun, of the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Department in the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), who clarified how vaccines work in a human body. Also, the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says there is absolutely no truth to the claim.  

    The interview with Dr. Iwalokun and publicly available evidence from a verified public health organisation brings us to our verdict this week, press play to know our VERDICT on the viral claim. 

    The Production Team for this week’s episode are:  

    Olakunle Mohammed – Project Manager  

    Nicholas Ibekwe – Researcher and Assistant Producer  

    Oluwatosin Ologun – Producer

    Adebayo Aare – Presenter