To start with, COVID-19 has come to teach us how to be conscious of our hygiene by taking sanitation seriously.
The general consensus is that COVID-19 has changed the world forever. As governments across board begin to ease the lockdown occasioned by the pandemic therefore, there’s an urgent need to interrogate other areas, where this pandemic, which has for some time taken this wide, wild world hostage, has been ‘good’, especially, to Nigerians. Already, the disease virus, which has traversed 188 countries and territories, has led to more than 11,170 cases of infection and 315 deaths in Nigeria.
For commercial bus drivers, who normally have their vehicles overcrowded, this is also the time to do more of obeying manufacturers’ instructions on the number and weight of passengers. So, COVID-19 or not, these are salient issues to look at so that we can have a new normal after the pandemic must have been subdued. We don’t have to go back to the old normal.
Visionary leadership deals with the ability to think through an identified problem, listen to wise counsels and take responsibility. We have said that government should invest in science, invest in education. Now that poverty has even become a pandemic in our land; and now that ‘Baba rere, baba ke’ has abandoned his duty post, it amounts to cyclical malady, of sorts, to just hope that coronavirus will disappear tomorrow, and we have nothing that can be described as a strategy.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities , Nigerians are tired of strikes! Governments, we are also tired of lockdowns, lockouts and shutdowns! Now that the reality on ground has shamed projections, COVID-19 should prompt both sides to sit down and fashion out which way to go! Instead of those endless-yet-needless fights with ASUU, what stops the government from commissioning, say, University of Ibadan, or Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; or any other university in Nigeria, for a well-funded...
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