Were banks in Benin City and Jalingo on fire amid the Nigerian cash crisis? No, ErinKFlanagan found that one video showed a 2021 supermarket fire in Abuja and the other a 2021 fire at Zenith Bank in Port Harcourt.
An authentic video recently showed Zenithsuspended the deadlineBut the claims that these posts show recent fires at banks in eastern and southern Nigeria are false.AFP Fact Check used several clues from the TikTok video claiming to show the CBN branch on fire to determine the actual location of the blaze.
The first clue is a billboard on the side of the road which can be seen 11 seconds into the clip. It reads:"Abuja Enterprise Agency."Using a keyword search for"Abuja fire", AFP Fact Check about a fire at an Abuja retailer called Next Cash and Carry in 2021, which featured a photo of a similar building., which lists the Abuja store as “temporarily closed”., which allows users to see a location from the street level, AFP Fact Check found the same"Abuja Enterprise Agency" sign in front of the empty lot where Google Maps verified that the Next Cash and Carry was once located.
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