#YouAsked Economy Did the Oyo state Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) increase by 26.4% without additional tax? Source Internally Generated Revenue At State Level H1 2020 (Nigerian Bureau of Statistics) Short answer Did the Oyo state Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) increase by 26.4% without additional tax? Oyo state generated N17.7billion in the first half of 2020 which is higher than the N14 billion it generated during the same period of 2019. The total tax for the first half of 2019 was N10.8 billion while the total tax for the first half of 2020 was N5.98 billion. Its revenue in the first half of 2... Back Full answer
#YouAsked Economy Was fuel in Nigeria sold at N600 in 2013? Source Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch October 2020 (National Bureau of Statistics) Short answer Was fuel in Nigeria sold at N600 in 2013? The average price paid by consumers for petrol increased by 0.07% month-on-month from N161.06 per litre in September 2020 to N161.17 per litre in October 2020.... Back Full answer
#YouAsked Elections & political parties How many voters will be participating in the 2020 Ghana election? Source The Electoral Commission Short answer How many voters will be participating in the 2020 Ghana election? Ghana’s electoral register has 17,027,655 registered voters.The West African nation went to the polls on December 7 to elect a president and 275 members of parliament.More: ELECTION 2020: EC publishes voters register again... Back Full answer
#YouAsked Welfare & population How many indigenous languages are spoken in Kenya? Source Language in Education Policy in Kenya: Intention, Interpretation, Implementation 2018 Short answer How many indigenous languages are spoken in Kenya? The number of indigenous languages spoken in Kenya remains speculative with most sources saying that there are over 40 different indigenous languages and dialects.... Back Full answer
#YouAsked Sex & gender What are the teenage pregnancy numbers for Kenya? Source Ministry of Health Short answer What are the teenage pregnancy numbers for Kenya? Three percent of girls aged 15 to 19 years were pregnant at the time of the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey. A further 15% had had a live birth, bringing the share of adolescents in this age group who had started childbearing to 18%. At the time, the fertility rate for this age group was... Back Full answer
#YouAsked Elections & political parties Who actually wrote the Freedom Charter? Source Crime and Social Justice journal article Short answer Who actually wrote the Freedom Charter? In 1953, Professor ZK Matthews, then leader of the ANC in the Cape, proposed that a Congress of the People be convened to draw up a Freedom Charter. The Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955 by the Congress of the People – a gathering of more than 2,800 delegates, representing numerous organisati... Back Full answer
#YouAsked Health Is Ebola from Africa? Source World Health Organization Short answer Is Ebola from Africa? Ebola virus disease is a deadly disease that affects mostly people and non-human primates such as monkeys and chimpanzees, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains. Symptoms include fever, diarrhoea, body aches and “unexplained bleeding”. According to the World Health Org... Back Full answer
#YouAsked Health Does the cervical cancer vaccine cause infertility? Source World Health Organization Short answer Does the cervical cancer vaccine cause infertility? Cervical cancer develops in the cervix, which “attaches the uterus to the vagina”. The World Health Organization says cervical cancer is almost always linked to sexually transmitted human papillomaviruses (HPV). The fear that HPV vaccines could cause infertility has been linked to the low sha... Back Full answer
#YouAsked Welfare & population Does the child support grant encourage teenage pregnancy? Source Human Sciences Research Council report Short answer Does the child support grant encourage teenage pregnancy? A 2006 analysis of teenage fertility trends found that there were “no grounds to believe that young South African girls are deliberately having children in order to access welfare benefits”.According to the research, teenage childbearing had not increased after the grant was introduced in 1998. ... Back Full answer