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Wtr Gideon Tobiloba The global pandemic, Coronavirus popularly called COVID 19 is shredding nations and Nigeria is not an exception. Nigeria government has come up with series of measures to curb its spread in Nigeria with lots of organizations coming up with support in different forms as well. To make the battle against COVID 19 easier for the government, the Nigeria Oil & Gas Industry under the leadership of the NNPC Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari recently embarked on an industry-wide collaborative initiative to combat the pandemic. Their intention is to give support under the three thematic support areas covering: Provision of medical consumables; Deployment of logistics and in-patient support system and delivery of medical infrastructure, initially amounted to N11bilion but has been exponentially increased to N21billion. The Women in Energy Network (WIEN), a non-political and non-profit organization, has unreservedly commended the effort of  the Nigerian

By Wtr Gideon Tobiloba It is no longer news that the entire world is going through  a critical period due to the Coronavirus pandemic also known as COVID 19.  The virus which started in Wuhan China in late December 2019 to early January 2020 has shut down the entire world starting with the developed nations. Asia, Europe, America, Africa and other continents have had their own share of damages in human lives caused by COVID 19 and the future still looks bleak for many. Medical practitioners are still struggling to understand this virus before coming up with a permanent cure but while the research goes on, WHO has come up with various precautionary measures to be taken in order to curb it's spread some of which are social distancing, regular washing of hands, not touching ones mouth, nose, eyes with unsanitized hands, keeping a clean environment and many more. Many nations believe the only way to curb the spread of this deadly virus is to enforce stay at home