Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog

Barely three months into the COVID-19 outbreak, stock markets have plummeted and global supply and production systems have wobbled. Across the world, panicked shoppers have cleared shelves of hand sanitizer, soap and tinned food as if preparing for a siege.

The World Health Organisation (www.WHO.int) has launched a messaging service with partners WhatsApp and Facebook to keep people safe from coronavirus.

Buhari The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and the Federal Government of Nigeria have launched the National Electrification Project (NEP) to address critical energy access deficits by channeling private sector investments into mini grid and off-grid solutions.

The Making Finance Work for Africa Partnership (MFW4A) has called on researchers and students enrolled in an academic institution to submit an essay on the African financial sector.

MusicTime, the world’s first time-based music streaming application, has revealed its new corporate identity via social media, following months of research and testing, and it’s already found favour across the market.

With coronavirus spreading globally, and now confirmed in crisis-affected countries with International Rescue Committee (IRC) operations like Afghanistan, Iraq, Burkina Faso and Venezuela, the IRC is ramping up its response to the outbreak with a focus on crisis zones with especially weak health systems.

The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) has kick-started a $2.2m project to provide fertilizer suppliers in Nigeria with financial support to improve supply for 200,000 smallholder farmers.

Fourteen directors and senior officials of the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Somalia on Saturday, March 14 returned to Mogadishu following a week of intensive strategic communications and public management training in Nairobi, Kenya.

It began like a little thing but has now turned into the world’s biggest issue, disrupting plans and shutting down countries, even those yet to really have it spreading in them.

Funny how time makes us forget things.