Covid-19

By Safia Ahsan Senior Technical Officer, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition A few weeks ago, the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition released a new report seeking to shed light on contraceptive supplies funding patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Rising from the Ashes One Entrepreneur’s Journey Through Tech Startup Adversity Adam had always been a hard worker, putting in long hours at his job as a software engineer. But despite his dedication, he found himself laid off when the economy took a downturn. Faced with the prospect of unemployment…

900,000 more people died in 2021 than expected — “Excess Deaths”. You’ve heard the phrase countless times by now. It is one of the myriad of previously esoteric epidemiology terms that the pandemic brought squarely into the zeitgeist. As a sort of standard candle of the performance of a state, or a region, or a country in terms of…

2020–21 no doubt has been a challenging year for everyone in sports and live entertainment. Every stakeholder has had issues which normally could not have been foreseen. Due to Covid, there has been more difficulty in terms of fan engagement inside and outside the bubble. For some companies, it has…

Before today, if you presented me with the title I just wrote, I would have assumed you either didn’t know any teachers personally or were on your way to expounding some bizarre conspiracy theory about the American classroom. Obviously we wanted to go back as soon as possible; how could…

The covid-19 pandemic era was a challenging time for everyone, especially in Nigeria, where we seem to depend entirely on the West for direction. I am grateful to have survived it. I was scared and unsure of what would happen at the pandemic’s beginning. The biggest problem for us was…