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$72How much it costs unvetted drivers to buy a verified Bolt ride-sharing account in NigeriaThe Estonian ride-sharing company has come under fire for a recent spike in crimes against passengers in Nigeria, including robbery, sexual assault, and harassment. An investigation by Rest of World found that in spite of these crimes, some Bolt drivers are selling their verified accounts on Facebook groups to third-party drivers who have not received any background checks or vetting. Some have even fashioned a full-fledged business, recruiting people to create driver accounts on Bolt purely for resale.
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427%The rise in Nintendo’s operating profit last quarter, mostly due to Animal CrossingNintendo, a Kyoto-based company, sold another 10 million copies of Animal Crossing, bringing the total copies of the game sold to 22 million. The game was released in late March. Compared to a year ago, Nintendo’s total software sales doubled to over 50 million copies.
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$1 billionThe amount of capital raised by instant delivery startups in India so farUltra-fast online grocery delivery has witnessed widespread adoption in India, with nearly 10 such services raising a cumulative $1 billion. The sector is expected to grow 15 times its current size, reaching a $5.5 billion market size by 2025.
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$100How much a barrel of oil has to cost for Algeria to balance its booksThe price of crude oil went negative this year for the first time in history; the price per barrel is now in the $40s. Algeria is one of a number of Middle Eastern oil exporters to be suffering from the precipitous drop in oil demand, and the Algerian government cut its budget by half in May.
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15How many radio stations the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council is using to distribute curricula to a million studentsThe Learn at Home program, a partnership between ed-tech company Malezi, Data Science Nigeria, and the Mastercard Foundation, targets primary and secondary students in Nigeria’s 36 states who have been unable to access school materials since March, due to the coronavirus pandemic.