In addition to coronavirus, the demise of Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, is the rave of the moment. Controversies over Kyari’s death and roles in government have raged – where he died, when he died, how he died and how he was buried. Whether he was patriot or villain has also polarised commentators. Today, Babafemi A. Badejo adds his voice in questions he would have loved Kyari to answer. Read on: “Its family name is Coronavirus. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), gave its first name as Covid-19; realized from an amalgamation…

Robert Reich The Covid-19 pandemic is putting the deepening class divide in America into stark relief. Four new classes are emerging. The Remotes: These are professional, managerial, and technical workers – an estimated 35% of the workforce – who are putting in long hours at their laptops, Zooming into conferences, scanning electronic documents, and collecting about the same pay as before the crisis. Many are bored or anxious, but they’re well off compared to the three other classes. The Essentials: They’re about 30% of workers, including nurses, homecare and childcare workers, farm workers, food processors, truck drivers, warehouse and transit…