Translate
Home » Health » Vanguard, 9 others team up with Anap Foundation to launch COVID-19 Hall of Shame Initiative
Vanguard, 9 others team up with Anap Foundation to launch COVID-19 Hall of Shame Initiative
On
By Sola Charles
Vanguard and nine other media organisations have teamed up with the Anap Foundation COVID-19 Think Tank to launch a “Name and Shame” Initiative as part of efforts to promote behavioural change around managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.
Disclosing this in a jointly signed statement, the Chairman of the Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside, and the Vice-Chairman, Abubakar Siddique Mohammed said the initiative will highlight the non-compliance of newsmakers with the Health Protection Regulations and spotlighting defaulters in the media.
Media houses collaborate and join the Anap Foundation COVID-19 Hall of Shame Initiative.
The Anap Foundation COVID-19 Think Tank (the Anap Think Tank) welcomes the COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations (2021) aimed at ensuring Nigerians adhere to public health advice around controlling the spread of COVID-19. It is detailed and if adhered to, will go a long way towards protecting us from the second wave and the more infectious strains of the virus.
However, we note with concern that these regulations are being openly flouted. While there is room for mass communication of the regulations – which mainly reiterate the popular, global advice about managing the pandemic (avoiding crowds, physical distancing, washing hands, wearing masks etc.) – we note that duty bearers and people in influential positions are particularly egregious in their disregard for public safety protocols.
Vanguard News
Restructuring: Good cause, poor champions
On
African proverb
LAST week,
Daily Trust Newspaper held its 18th Annual Dialogue under the theme, ”Restructuring: Why? When? How?” This now famous event has become a platform that allows the nation to bare its soul for painful scrutiny. It has found acceptance among the high and mighty as an avenue to reach the nation, or to take up those who want to reach the nation. Its choice of this year’s theme was near-perfect. It asked questions you would think are settled in a country where the word restructuring comes second only to the word security in popularity.
Views: 926
Strange things happen nowadays in Nigeria. Can you imagine that a group of people will carry ten or more vehicles, drive them inside a school compound, collect and pack hundreds of students into these vehicles and drive them away unnoticed?
The exercise which may take up to three or more hours to accomplish, will escape the prying eyes of both government and security agencies in this age of Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM), when the world is a global village.
It happened in Chibok, Borno State, in 2014; in Dapchi, Yobe State, in 2016; and now in Kankara, Katsina State. They took everybody by surprise, unaware, and the people would be beating about the bush.