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<p>Kaduna State became the latest stop in a growing national campaign against misinformation on Tuesday, as Alkalanci a Hausa-language fact-checking and media literacy organisation commenced a two-day training workshop for female Islamic scholars and teachers drawn from across the state.</p>
<p>The initiative, which has previously held sessions in Kano, Sokoto, Gombe and Maradi in Niger Republic, marks its first women-focused edition in Kaduna, with organisers expressing confidence it will deliver its most consequential results yet.</p>
<p>Speaking at the opening ceremony, Managing editor and program manager of Alkalanci Victoria Bamas, framed the gathering around the responsibilities that women carry as society&#8217;s primary educators. &#8220;If you educate a man, you educate an individual; but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation,&#8221; she said, invoking a widely cited maxim to underscore the workshop&#8217;s rationale.</p><div class="D8ncrblf" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>Bamas warned that the spread of misinformation and disinformation including content manipulated by deepfake technology posed mounting dangers to Nigerian communities, particularly as the country moves toward another election cycle. She urged participants, as trusted voices in their communities, to take on the role of defenders of accurate information. &#8220;Pause, question, verify, and ultimately reject falsehood,&#8221; she urged.</p>
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<p>The workshop was designed with an all-women team of facilitators drawn from academia, the media and religious institutions. Participants will receive practical tools for verifying text, images and video content, with the expectation that they carry the training back to their communities and multiply its reach.</p>
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<p>Kaduna State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hon. Rabi Ibrahim, commended Alkalanci for targeting women in its outreach, and drew attention to the particular harm caused by deepfake content circulated against women and girls on social media. She described media literacy and verification skills as essential not just for the women trained, but for the broader communities they serve and protect.</p>
<p>The Deputy Amira of Federation of Muslim Women&#8217;s Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN) Hauwa Idris also pledged its support and partnership, with its delegation framing the fight against misinformation in humanitarian terms. &#8220;Combatting misinformation is like preventing a crisis it means saving humanity,&#8221; a spokesperson said. FOMWAN committed to cascading the knowledge gained at the workshop to women across all the states where it operates.</p>
<p>Representatives of Jamiiyyar Matan Arewa, Hajiya Ladi Garba the umbrella body for northern Nigerian women, echoed those sentiments, noting that the effects of disinformation from lost lives to health crises fall disproportionately on women. The group pledged institutional support for organisations like Alkalanci in their efforts to equip women with the tools to critically assess information they encounter.</p>
<p>Alkalanci said the Kaduna edition builds on lessons from its earlier engagements across the region, and that outcomes from those sessions had already demonstrated measurable impact in communities&#8217; ability to identify and resist false narratives.</p>
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