A photo making the rounds on social media showing a Nigerian aircraft with worn-out tyre has emerged as fake. A popular online medium shared the photo of a badly damaged tyre, with the first layer already peeled off, but still on the wheel of an aircraft supposedly used by an airline in Nigeria. The photo was credited to a musician, Oluwarotimi Martins, popularly known as Alariwo of Africa. A reverse image search conducted on the photo by The Guardian showed that the image was used by an Imgur user Shiznittlebamsnipsnapsally, who used it as an illustration in an attempt to explain how commercial aircraft tyres are commonly re-used.on December 9, 2016, “While you are sitting on the throne growing a tail, you might as well learn something new. Commercial aircraft tyres are commonly re-used multiple times,” Shiznittlebamsnipsnapsally said in the Imgur post. “After the tyre is worn to limits, then it is sent to a facility where a new tread section is adhered to the tyre. This is ...