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Construction employees work in Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria in this July 2017 photo.

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Does Nigeria have world’s highest unemployment rate? Several newspapers quote unreliable social media source

In August, a spate of media reports brought bad news for Nigerians – that they now had the highest unemployment rate in the world.

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Does Nigeria have more cases of female genital mutilation than most other countries?

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ANALYSIS: South African minority party right to be worried over North West crime stats, but lockdown skewed numbers

A Freedom Front Plus leader in North West said the murder rate for the province nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021. Is he right?