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COVID-19: My position to the struggle for Schools in Nigeria to be reopened - Chidike Edmond

My position to the struggle for Schools in Nigeria to be reopened is clearly based on the #NewNormal we must accept.  Is markets and religious centers safer? Will people from high risk state not find their ways to these social events? Questions I have been challenged with but here is my view:  Neither the church nor market is safe following that people will surely make contact... For the markets, the methodology employed in our local market I can vote it even of higher risk. The best is to even keep it lockdown but I tell you this bitter truth; if you totally lockdown our markets, many Africans (Not just that poor woman in out Delta State villages who can not feed well even on a good day, but all poor people in Africa) will die of hunger even before they get infected. It will be worse than it was during the civil war (not as if was there sha, just a reference). Fine, let's protest, let our government feed not all of us but just these poor; then we lost over a tril...

NANS: Students Deserve Free and Qualitative Education.

Following the on going online protest lead by the National Association of Nigerian Student's - NANS Zone D via its official twitter handle @nanszoned19, the apex Student's Union Government; NANS has kicked against schools Re-Opening online. The protest which started on Monday (18th May 2020), scheduled for one week, had drawn engagement using the following hash tags #NoStudyAllowanceNoOnlineClasses #SlashShoolfeesby50%. Engaging many Nigerian Student's, NANS Zone D releases today's news letter: It Reads; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS (NANS) ZONE D (SOUTH WEST) 19 - 05 - 2020 Students Deserve Free and Qualitative Education; It is Our Right and We Will Fight For It READ ALSO: Akwa Ibom State Government Warns Against Schools Re-Opening Online It is public knowledge that successive government in the country have failed to massively fund education; this is evident in the indiscriminate manner they allocate meagre amount to the educational se...