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David Sawey is a 12 year-old boy who has resulted into farming due to his parent’s inability to fund his enrolment to school. His father who left Cotonou, Benin Republic for greener pastures, settled in Ifelodun community in Ogun State and tried to fend for his family by planting vegetable, tomatoes and yams. David who is the eldest of the 3 children, is determined to go...

When the Ogun State government announced a state wide lockdown on Friday, April 3, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, not everyone envisaged what the outcome of the lockdown would be. As the state battled to survive the ravaging pandemic, schools, religious centres, offices, markets and other public places were all shutdown for more than six months. This resulted in untold hardships for many...

On 27 February 2020, Nigeria recorded its index case of the coronavirus disease since the beginning of the outbreak in January 2020. Exactly one year down the line, with 154, 476 confirmed cases and 1,891 deaths, the pandemic is still prevalent as it was a year ago and Nigeria is the sixth most affected country in Africa. The challenges in the health sector in...