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For decades, the plight of retired people in Nigeria has been dire. Pensioners have died while queueing for their cheques while many don’t receive them at all. Are most of Nigeria’s states presently indebted to retirees, as a union official said?
Unemployment remains a challenge to most African governments. Kenya’s no less, but debating solutions should rest on accurate information.
A South African community newspaper has claimed only car accidents and murder kill more young people in the country. The data doesn’t support the claim.
Nigeria’s government is looking to spend big on infrastructure. For funding, it is looking beyond its internal markets, but is it correct that the country has not borrowed in foreign markets since 2013? We did a bit of checking.
The governor of Nigeria’s Kogi state recently said there was no working fire engine for the region’s 4.4 million people when he took office. We looked into this claim.
Senior researcher Kate Wilkinson lists her top three discoveries from the United Nation’s Data Forum hosted in Cape Town last week.
Agitating that #DataMustFall, some have claimed that South Africans spend close to a quarter of their income on data. But surveys from South Africa’s national statistics agency and the University of Cape Town tell a different story.
Fear of crime remains high but the evidence suggests that people in South Africa are about half as likely to be physically assaulted or killed today as they were 20 years ago.
Do Nigerians pop nearly as much bubbly as the French themselves? What started out as a forecast on new champagne consumption has taken on a life of its own.
Holding up to scrutiny the claims made by leading figures and institutions, such as the Institute for Race Relations (IRR), is the basis of a healthy democracy. And it is worrying to suggest otherwise.