Minimising impact of COVID-19 crisis on Nigeria’s economy

With global case currently put at 1.39 million and 101,000 deaths, Coronavirus is arguably the biggest challenge facing humanity today. In December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases from an unknown virus surfaced in Wuhan, China. Based on initial laboratory findings, the disease named Coronavirus disease 2019 (abbreviated as COVID-19), was described as an infectious […]

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How did man’s wrong way of living cause Coronavirus disease?

By Samueli The virus which originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has spread around the globe sending billions of people into lockdown as healthcare workers struggle to cope. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization categorised COVID-19 as a pandemic. As at 10.07 p.m. April 12, 2020, there has been 1,833,685 confirmed cases, […]

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This unusual Easter, muted celebration!

Nigerians celebrate today Easter Sunday. For Christians the world over, the weekend marks the end of the forty-day period of Lent, a celebration of the central mystery that defines the Christian faith – the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. To Christians, without the Power of Resurrection, there would have […]

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Beyond COVID-19 pandemic

By Ikechukwu Agada SAs usual, the political establishment is out in full force to contain the dreaded hydra-headed Covid-19 (Coronavirus) threatening the world, signposting that sports and common challenge (crisis) unite Nigerians faster than religion, ethnicity and the likes. The giant of Africa is blessed with resilient and intelligent professionals with a history of patience […]

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COVID-19: Trigger for Nigeria’s economic diversification?

By Marcel Okeke One of the likely ‘gains’ of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has been ravaging the world since the dawn of 2020 is the expectation that the plague might drive a country like Nigeria into effective diversification of its economy. This expectation is essentially hinged on the fact that the emergence of the disease […]

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Coronavirus, the economy and global oil price

That global oil prices recently witnessed a drastic drop in the early days of March because of the shock to the world economy from the corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic should be of huge concern to the government and people. This global health crisis, which subsequently became an economic crisis has significantly ravaged the global economy […]

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