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LAGOS  – It is a different stroke to a different folk when examining the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The total and partial closure of schools that started 2020 owing to the COVID-19 lockdown has changed our school system, and has forced some children to become apprentices. Many students on their own volitions and some by the order of their parents were drafted into vocational trainings...

The Osun State Government in its response to COVID-19 palliatives had generated almost 1.5 Billion naira (1,406,992,424.13) from individual, corporate and government donors between April – September 2020. Over forty million naira (40,712,923.96) was generated from individual donors; almost four hundred million naira (366,279,500.17) from corporate donors and 1 billion naira from other government sources. In an audited COVID-19 cash flow statement signed by the...

LAGOS  – It will amount to a child’s play if laws are made and not followed to the letter; the government and its agencies should ensure they are fully complied with.  Relating this to rules and protocols to checkmate the raging Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), it appears that the governments and regulatory bodies have gone into slumber in enforcing the COVID-19 protocols. Despite the warnings from the...

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) in partnership with Free Press Unlimited (FPU) has commenced a pilot project under its Free to Share initiative, in Nigeria. The project was launched virtually on Friday, 4 December 2020, with the commissioning of reporters who will execute stories under a mentor-mentee arrangement. The 'Free to share' initiative is geared at broadening the scope of freedom of...

The closure of two strategic markets — under coronavirus concerns — has aggravated suffering of families across the oil-rich state. As the coronavirus pandemic triggered panic across Nigeria in March, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike ordered the closure of all major markets in the state as part of his government’s containment measures to flatten the curve of new infections. With the phased reopening of the economy,...