COVID-19 Pandemic Costs world economy $280 Billion: The Need for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nigeria’s ICT Sector

The COVID-19 disease was characterized as a pandemic (the highest level of health emergency) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March of 2020. The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) defines a pandemic as a global outbreak of a disease that happens when a new virus emerges and usually presents an alarming health crisis. In … Read more

Work from Home: Impact on Productivity and Employee Effort

The year 2020 brought upon many challenges to individuals. One including the need for many to work remotely from their homes. For many people this was a huge change in their lifestyle, the inability to step outside the house without fearing of catching the coronavirus was a huge and an ongoing challenge present in many … Read more

COVID-19 Pandemic: Its Impact on the Nigerian Economy and Government Directives for Containment

In Nigeria, the presence of the deadly virus known as coronavirus, COVID- 19, was first confirmed officially on 27th February 2020 (Otache, 2020). There are different types of coronaviruses; the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS-CoV; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS; and novel Coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2 are all caused by coronaviruses and results in … Read more

Private sector (Non-sovereign) Financing ADB: Financing partnerships, Cofinancing, Trade and Supply Chain Financial Programs, Results-based Leading, Funds and Resources

• Private sector (Non-sovereign) Financing ADB focuses on projects that help to promote private investment in the region that have a significant development impact and lead to accelerate, sustainable, and inclusive growth. • Financing partnership Financing partnerships are well established of working for development. Donors, multilateral institutions, and development agencies come together to assist developing … Read more

Understanding Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare: Threats and Categorization

The threat of biological warfare seems to conquer everyone!! However, what we understand by bioterrorism is use of biological weapons against human population for mainly destructions, which is a matter of concern. The draft Model State Emergency Health Powers Act of 2001, which is a document designed to guide legislative bodies as they draft laws … Read more

Job Analysis in the Age of COVID-19: Repurposing, Redesigning, and Enlarging Jobs

The global economy is seeing an uncharted complexity and fresh worrisome situations in this pandemic. Companies are being forced to take up a new challenge of completely re-designing majority of the nature of their work. The operating modules cannot exist as they were pre-pandemic and therefore require a creative revision. Compassion for workforce and their … Read more

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Answer 1 Environmental issues Environmental issues in Pakistan have been disturbing the stability between commercial growth and Environmental shelter as a great problem for the nature And nation of Pakistan and as Pakistan is a large importer of both exhaustible and renewable natural resource and a large consumer of fossil fuels the ministry of environment … Read more

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Psychological Well-Being of Doctors in Tertiary Care Centers

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: COVID-19 pandemic has affected the psychological well being of not only the general population but also of the doctors (physicians and trainees) working in the tertiary care centres (referral centres). They are vulnerable to myriad of psychological problems as they strive to balance the duty of caring for patients with concerns about their … Read more

Mental Health Impact of COVID-19: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Exacerbation – Case Report

The world has been ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic and apart from its impact on physical health of humans ,the mental health is also being affected adversely. One such disease which coronavirus pandemic was anticipated to show its effects on is the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, as exacerbation of OCD symptoms has been reported following previous … Read more

The Impact of Covid-19 on South African Stock Market: Analysis of FTSE/JSE All Share Index Trends

.1. INTRODUCTION Covid-19 has devasted economies worldwide. Households and businesses have been struggling to stay afloat while under lockdown, as the virus continues to force governments to delicately balance between saving the economy and saving lives. According to the Wall Street Journal, South Africa’s economy shrank by 51% in the second quarter, which is said … Read more