Screenshot of image used in publishing the claim that FG is giving grant to Nigerians
Claim
A facebook post by FG Free Grant claims that small businesses in Nigeria could get a support of up to ₦250,000 from the Federal Government of Nigeria as a grant. It titled the grant: RENEW HOPE SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.
The post was published on May 24, 2026 and at the time of this fact-check it has 1.3k likes, 575 comments and 21 shares. This makes it necessary to fact-check this viral post.
Also, the content appears to target Nigerians who speak Hausa Language, as the caption was written in Hausa language: “Samun tallafi kyauta daga gwamnatin nigeria kowane wata kawai ta hanyar nema” but translated to English as “Get free support from Nigerian government every month just by applying”.
Verification
To identify if this was an image lifted from government’s official platforms where such grants are announced, we used Google reverse image tool to check, entering the query: “Where has this image been used before and when was the first time it appeared online. Provide links to the pages”.
Google returned the response in the image below, describing it as a variation of a known scam.
Screenshot of response from Google identifying the image as a scam variation
We discovered that a link was attached to the post to the end that when a person clicked the image, it took them to another web page with the url visa.ibd3d.com/.
This page is a wordpress website that contains another banner post with information written in Hausa.
Screenshot of content of the page the link navigates to.
We right-clicked the image and selected ‘translate to English’ and the image below represents what the page contains.
A close look at the link of the post shows the page has nothing to do with the Federal Government of Nigeria as claimed.
The government has a policy that all government websites must contain .gov.ng as part of its domain.
This particular domain with the grant claim does not have anything to do with the government.
To verify the website link, we copied it and pasted it on Google AI mode and asked the platform to verify the website and it returned the information in the image below.
Screenshot of website check result done by Google
According to Google, the “website is highly likely to be a scam or a phishing link”, and this is a reg flag. .
In addition, in 2025, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development published a notice on its Facebook page on March 22, 2025, urging Nigerians to disregard different variations of fake loan and grant schemes.
Verdict
After this investigation, we can confidently state that the link is a phishing and data harvesting trap, designed for: identity theft, to steal sensitive data like your Bank Verification Number (BVN), National Identification Number (NIN), full name and phone number and bank details.
Websites like this often attempt to trick you into providing a One-Time Password (OTP) to drain your bank account. Ad revenue fraud: many of these fake links act as “ engagement “ that redirects you to unrelated advertising or job visa websites to generate click revenue for the scammers.
Therefore, the purported Federal Government loan and grant link is fake and does not originate from any authorised government agency.
Unsuspecting Nigerians risk being defrauded if they click on the link and provide their personal information.
