Tag Archives: COVID

Project Safe Up: Here’s Why You Still Need To Be Truly ‘Anti-COVID’

The end of this long year is approaching, and COVID-19 is still very much present; the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide is well over 72 million — and counting! Over 73,100 of those cases have been diagnosed in Nigeria, with over 24,000 in Lagos alone! On Friday, December 11, 2020, Nigeria recorded its […]

Delivering On The Y’ello Hope Promise: MTN Foundation Contributes Over 70,000 Items Of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) To NCDC

Following MTN’s commitment of N500 million to support the acquisition of critical medical supplies for healthcare professionals on the frontlines, the MTN Foundation has delivered a first batch of over 70,000 pieces of essential personal protection equipment to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The consignment includes: 30160 N95 masks, 8000 aprons, 2000 pairs […]

COVID: Between A Pandemic-Sized Rock And An Impoverished Hard Place by Iretomiwa Akintunde-Johnson

COVID-19 has thundered through the world. We will speak of the pandemic for centuries to come. When children have their devices floating in the air as they waddle to school, and robots have replaced humans in many positions at the workplace, the virus that pushed the world to its knees will be one of the […]