Opinion: Deploying Lessons Learnt and Resetting Priorities For a Post-COVID-19 Nigeria, By Soji Ehinlanwo
…COVID-19 has been a sudden and unexpected occurrence across the world, which has triggered sad and unfortunate illnesses and deaths, jolting the world in a way that has not been witnessed for several years. Nonetheless, it has also represented some measure of wake-up call and provides opportunities for us as a people and a nation to re-invent ourselves in a multitude of ways…
While battling COVID-19 with determination, faith and focus, we must now begin to consider much better options for the immediate and longer-term future.
In addition, as I have argued in a previous article, there is an urgent imperative for the democratisation of the adoption of ICT – ensuring that ICT becomes an important and compulsory element of school curriculum, at the very least at the secondary and higher institutions of learning. This needs to be facilitated through an urgent legislation that makes coding compulsory from secondary school to the university/polytechnic level.
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