Building Africa’s resilience for sustainable food security post-COVID-19 (2)
Olukayode Oyeleye
April 27, 2020
DESPERATE SITUATIONS sometimes require desperate solutions. For Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic requires quality thinking and actions beyond the ordinary, ritualistic or business-as-usual. The pattern of spread of the pandemic, the surge, the sustained presence and severity of impacts will not be exactly the same as in more developed countries. Statistics might be a major hurdle […]
Building Africa’s resilience for sustainable food security post-COVID-19 (1)
Olukayode OyeleyeApril 20, 2020
WHILE THE ENTIRE world is engrossed in the concerns about the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic and many investments are irredeemably going down the drain, the sunny side and the silver linings around the dark cloud should be reassuring and encouraging. Realising the enormity of damage done, it becomes clear that escaping the devastating consequences of […]
Insurance: The lifeline of SMEs (2)
Francis EwheridoApril 20, 2020
There are many other non-life insurances, depending on the nature of your business, but let us move away from physical assets and focus on human assets. It is widely acclaimed that the greatest asset of a business are the people (employees). Earlier we listed attracting and retaining skilled manpower as one of the challenges facing […]
Covid19’s mutation to ‘hunger virus.’
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoApril 20, 2020
It is challenging to placate a man deprived of the necessities of life. That is the root of the famous saying that “a hungry man is an angry man”. We are already seeing that happening as more people who are experiencing hunger due to the lockdown of the socio-economic life are beginning to respond as […]
Mutable frontiers in public health and economy post-COVID-19
Olukayode OyeleyeApril 13, 2020
SINCE THE CORONAVIRUS outbreak in Wuhan in China became a matter of public knowledge as it spreads through the continents, a consistent finding is that the death rates are higher among the seniors and people with underlying health challenges. This is understandable as age and some chronic ailments tend to weaken the body and compromise […]
Insurance: The lifeline of SMEs (1)
Francis EwheridoApril 13, 2020
We all probably know what insurance is, but I will still put up some working definitions here so that we can all be on the same page. For our presentation today, let us look at insurance as a risk transfer mechanism where one party (policyholder or insured), after paying a specified amount (premium), transfers his […]
Corporate responses to COVID – 19 lockdown
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoApril 13, 2020
Most residents of the three Nigerian states of Lagos, Ogun and Abuja currently on socio-economic lockdown are already fatigued. With obviously low levels of savings, many are already existing on the margins of survival and may not yield to prolonged activity lockdown. Worse still, both the federal and state governments have also substantially failed to […]
Nigeria and post-COVID-19 expectations
Olukayode OyeleyeApril 6, 2020
BY THE TIME THE roaring hurricane of the ravaging Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic must have spent its fury and the lull of calm sets in, various countries of the world will wake up to diverse realities. Much of these realities will either be consequences of years of hard work, meticulous scenario thinking and strategic planning or […]
The wonderful benefits of coronavirus
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoApril 6, 2020
There are two famous sayings that we need to invoke to appreciate the many right sides of coronavirus outbreak rather than the gloomy and fear-exciting pictures painted across the media. The first is that ‘things are never as bad as they seem,’ while the second is that ‘sometimes you have to lose what you have […]
COVID-19: Insurance cover for health professionals
Francis EwheridoApril 6, 2020
Last Sunday, a letter issued by the Government of Ghana surfaced in various insurance professionals’ social media platforms. In the letter, the government announced a special life insurance package for 10,000 Ghanaian health personnel and allied professionals tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. The policy is a combination of group life, critical illness and employers’ […]