Livelihood

Mr Wike in March 2020 shut down all markets in the state to reduce the spread of COVID-19. He later reopened all the markets except the Oil Mill and the Oginigba Slaughter markets. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has ordered the re-opening of the Oil Mill market, more than a year after the market was shut down amidst the COVID-19 in March 2020. The governor’s directive...

Two years before the pandemic, the World Bank in a publication, ‘Nutrition, Religion, and Widowhood in Nigeria’, noted that, globally, unmarried individuals have been found to have higher mortality and morbidity than married ones. The report acknowledged that the mistreatment of widows is grave and this includes dispossession following a husband’s passing as over 42 percent of Nigerian widows are found to be completely...

The outbreak of the deadly coronavirus dealt a devastating blow to many countries of the world, of which Nigeria is one of those countries that was taken unaware. A country like Nigeria plagued by bad leadership that is laden with corruption, where citizens live below the poverty level, with youth restiveness and unemployment level on the increase on a daily basis, where terrorism, kidnapping and...

No country appears free from the icy touch of the covid-19 pandemic. At its peak, countries all over the world felt various degrees of its negative impacts. It has killed, amplified gender inequalities globally and contributed to reduction in global trade. In Nigeria, the most relatable impact would be the latest unemployment rate, which increased to 33.3 percent in Q4 2020 from 27.1 percent...

This report by OLUKAYODE JAIYEOLA focuses on some Nigerians who lost their means of livelihood due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how they have braved the odds The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of people across the globe to suspend their normal daily activities and stay at home with a catastrophic impact on the economy and massive job losses. As of the second quarter of...