“There will be economic and political backlash when the pandemic is over as it will provide ready excuse for further attacks on the rights of workers and the citizens through wage cuts, layoffs, redundancies, increased casualisation, etc. It is also not ruled out that there will be fresh increases in VAT, electricity tariff, etc. as the ruling class will attempt to shift the burden of bailing the economy out of the doldrums it is headed to the masses while bailing out the big businesses. We must prepare for this and stand to defend jobs and right to decent living. The masses cannot be expected to pay for this crisis when the political elite earn outrageous pay.”
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“Post-COVID-19 reconstruction in the education sector should leverage on virtual learning using the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) approach as a key instrument of knowledge production and dissemination.”
Lagos lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) has buttressed his earlier assertion that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the constitutional authority to…