What do Nigeria's new GDP numbers really mean?
So it’s official. The long overdue and widely anticipated GDP revision in Nigeria has arrived. And it was certainly worth the wait. It is bi
So it’s official. The long overdue and widely anticipated GDP revision in Nigeria has arrived. And it was certainly worth the wait. It is bi
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Last month South Africa's Daily Maverick website published an article which claimed that "Al-Qaeda is alive and well in South Africa". Was
The recent budget vote speech by South Africa's police minister, Nathi Mthethwa, left out the bad news and relied on questionable statistics...
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