By Chimezie Nebolisa In today's world economy, the havoc being wrecked by the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic is no longer news. Apart from what now seems to be an orthodox discourse on the health implications of the virus, the economic mayhem associated with pandemic has garnered more public opinion. Over the past few months since the Coronavirus pandemic emergence, the global oil value and price tend to fluctuate, stocks have devalued and various businesses struggle to stay afloat. Just last week, the management of one of the top players of the Nigerian banking sector, Access bank, through her MD/CEO, Herbert Wigwe, noted that about seventy-five percent of her workforce would be retrenched and laid off, while over three hundred of her branches would be shut down till further notice, this notwithstanding after the banking firm had declared earlier that her staff would take pay cuts in their salaries and wages. He also stated that those to be affected by this essential down-c...
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