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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Participants at a two day workshop on the role of the media in the fight against the dreaded Covid 19 pandemic currently ravaging the globe, organized for Journalists in the five South East states of Nigeria, have expressed worry over issue of fake news on the scourge and doubts by many people that the novel killer disease is not real.
They noted that in spite of reports of fatalities and the spike in new infections, quite a good number of people still do not believe that the virus is real.
Our Correspondent who attended the workshop put together by the Nigerian press Council (NPC) in conjunction with EME’GS limited, a private firm weekend, reports that the programme which witnessed several paper presentations was graced by Journalists from both the traditional and new media outfits.
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As the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspended its nine-month-old strike, yesterday, professors from various institutions said the action had left colossal loss to the nation.
The suspension came after ASUU and the Federal Government resolved the contentious issues that had prolonged the strike. ASUU’s National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, announced the suspension of the strike at a press conference shortly after the National Executive Council meeting (NEC) of the union resolved that the protracted strike action be suspended conditionally.
Ogunyemi, however, warned that if government failed to fulfill its own part of the agreement, ASUU would resume the strike.
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