Charly Boy, the ace Nigerian singer, has claimed the son of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), won an international world brain competition.
Charly Boy claimed in a tweet on Wednesday.
“Nnamdi Kanu’s son has shocked the world by becoming the first child ever to win English, Mathematics, and Russian Language in an international world brain competition,” the post reads.
“The 11-year-old prodigy outshined the United Kingdom in their very own language, emerging as the champion. He went further to defeat some of the world’s strongest young minds, proving his brilliance on the global stage.
“This historic victory has not only placed him in the spotlight but also written his name in the record books as one of the most gifted children of his generation.”
So far, the post has gathered 952.2k views, 24k likes, 4.6k retweets, and 689 bookmarks.
There were mixed reactions among the 1.4k comments. While some users tried to verify the information from Grok, X’s AI assistant, others welcomed the development.
But the musician’s announcement omitted key information.
Charly Boy failed to mention the date, the specifics of the competition including the title, or the winner’s name.
Here is what CableCheck found.
VERIFICATION
On June 14-17, the regional British Neuroscience Olympiad (BNO) 2025 was held online. The national competition was held in August in London.
Open to students, the competition aims to inspire young learners to pursue a career in neuroscience and related STEM fields.
The regional round competition required participants to answer questions drawn from neuroscience, while the national competition presented competitors with multiple-choice questions, a patient diagnosis challenge, and neuroanatomy and neurohistology tests.
Mehul Rathi was named the winner, Pouria Karimi came second, and Hannah Weissmann secured third place.
A separate event called the “Brain Up International Championship 2025” also took place in the UK, focusing on abacus and mental arithmetic skills globally.
The specific winners of the competition are not publicly listed in detail. However, a winner named Myra Shaikh was mentioned as the champion in an Instagram post related to an international abacus competition.
International Brain Bee, another competition, was also organised but had its 2025 world championship event virtually held in the US.
The closest to an international “world brain competition” in the UK recently was the BNO event.
CableCheck ran a Google reverse image search on the photo Charly Boy posted, claiming to be Nnamdi Kanu’s son, and found opposing results.
The image belonged to Alejandro Cooper, a young Namibian actor, who made history for the country by winning the ‘Best Youngest African Actor’ award in Burkina Faso on November 16.
The 12-year-old received the honour for his role in the film ‘Lukas’, directed by Philippe Talavera
Several Namibian news outlets reported the award.
VERDICT
The image portrayed in Charly Boy’s post is not Nnamdi Kanu’s son. It is also unclear which “brain competition” is being referred to. Notable competitions publicly held in the UK this year have winners who are unrelated to Kanu.
