Facts in Q&A format

The federal government allocated N30 billion for its Social Housing Scheme (Family Homes Fund) in 2020. ...

Nigeria’s housing deficit continues to grow and is currently estimated at 17 million. ...

According to the human settlements department’s 2019/20 annual report, it has provided 76,571 serviced sites and 108,212 housing units between 2018/19 and 2019/20 (Q1 & Q2 to Sep 2019). A serviced site is a piece of land that is connected to water, sanitation and electricity. Recipien...

Africa remains mostly rural, with 43% of its population living in urban areas. ...

As of 17 November 2021, the total number of individuals vaccinated in Mpumalanga stood at just over 1 million (1,420,542). ...

No. Legally, no one can be forced or coerced into taking the vaccine. This was affirmed by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he addressed parliament on 3 September 2021: “No one should be forced to be vaccinated. Instead, we need to use the available scientific evidence to encourage — repeat encour...

According to UCT’s Faculty of Health Science, there were 254 patients hospitalised with Covid-19 on 6 September 2021. ...

A standard housing affordability measure is that the price of an "affordable" house is in a range of three to five times the average annual household income. The costs of most houses are far outside this range, according to 2013 data by the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF). Cou...

As of February 2020, there were only 67 ICU ventilators and no non-invasive ventilation machines for a population of 30 million people in Ghana. This is equivalent to an estimated ventilator capacity of 0.22 ventilators per 100,000 people in Ghana. Even if operating room ventilators are used as a ba...