This photo on Facebook, supposedly of Spaghetti Highway Bridge in Nigeria’s Cross River State is FALSE.

The image is of a suspension bridge and the caption claims it connects Calabar Municipality to the Odukpani local government.

The bridge, according to the post, was built by former Cross River State Governor Benedict Ayade, whose tenure lasted from May 2015 to May 2023, when he handed over to Prince Bassey Otu.

But is the photo authentic?

We performed a Google reverse image search and established that the photo is of Nansha Bridge in the Chinese port city of Guangzhou.

A Google search for Nansha Bridge in Guangzhou, China, led to this and this article with photos matching the bridge we are debunking.

Additionally, the photos of the Odukpani to Calabar dual carriageway shared by the ex-governor Ayade on Facebook on 26 May 2023 are not similar to the bridge in question.

PesaCheck examined a photo on Facebook supposedly of Spaghetti Highway Bridge in Nigeria’s Cross River State and found it to be FALSE.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Rodgers Omondi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Cédrick Irakoze and acting chief copy editor Francis Mwaniki.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editorDoreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visitpesacheck.org.

PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.