Employment figures are an important measure of a country’s economic health. Were people right to question the unemployment rate for Nigeria in a widely-shared tweet?
Report: Is Nigeria’s unemployment rate 18.8%, as widely tweeted?
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Factsheet: FACTSHEET: South Africa’s official poverty numbers
What proportion of South Africans live in poverty? How are the numbers calculated? And who is most vulnerable? This factsheet presents South Africa’s official poverty estimates.
Report: ANC job creation boast ignores SA’s increased unemployment rate
The number of employed people has increased in South Africa since 1994. But comparisons of absolute numbers don’t present the full picture.
Report: Do just 700,000 public workers gobble up half of Kenya’s taxes, as Ruto said?
Kenya’s civil servant pay levels continue to attract national debate. Is the situation as bad as the deputy president recently depicted?
Report: Hit or miss? Taking stock of 5 claims in Buhari’s 2018 budget speech
Nigeria’s president is firmly back in the driving seat after two medical leaves of absence. Now mid-term, President Muhammadu Buhari has outlined his spending plans for 2018. But do his key claims add up?
Report: Does a Nigerian lawmaker earn more than US President Donald Trump?
Are the country’s legislators living luxuriously as the majority of citizens tighten their belts? We did the math.
Report: Do South African women earn 27% less than men?
A car distributor tweeted that women in South Africa take home more than a quarter less than their male counterparts. The statistic is mostly correct.
Report: Did historic court ruling wipe out nearly $1 billion from Kenya’s stock exchange?
Highlighting the cost of invalidating the 8 August presidential election, Kenya’s deputy president quantified losses by a spooked stock market at KSh100 billion. Do his numbers add up?
Factsheet: GUIDE: Black ownership on SA’s stock exchange – what we know
Black participation in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange continues to be the topic of heated debate in South Africa. This guide explains the different estimates and the methodologies used to arrive at them.
Factsheet: FACTSHEET: Everyday corruption in Nigeria – who is on the take?
In winning Nigeria’s 2015 election, President Muhammadu Buhari successfully cast himself as an anti-corruption crusader. But as our factsheet shows, Nigerians’ experience with everyday bribery shows he has his work cut out.