A business expert, Dr Chinedu Onyeizugbo has called for paradigm shift from oil dependency in Nigeria to agriculture and Information Technology, as a way of resuscitating the country’s economy after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dr Onyeizugbo who made the call while speaking on the economic effects of Covid-19 during an ABS TV programme, “Talking Point”, noted that for people and the country’s economy to survive after the pandemic era, agricultural and information technological economy must be highly embraced.
Dr Onyeizugbo who is the Deputy Director, Nnamdi Azikiwe University business school, while saying that the outbreak of Coronavirus has badly affected all spheres of the world economy, said that government should embark on aggressive sensitization of the citizenry on how best to manage and sustain their businesses this Covid-19 era.
Describing business as beyond buying and selling of goods and services, the business expert encouraged business tycoons to remodel their business to the reality of time, in order to overcome Covid-19 business challenges.
Speaking on the government’s efforts so far in cushioning the efforts of the Covid-19 on the citizenry, Dr Onyeizugbo called on government at all level to improve on distribution system of palliative materials to the people, and advocated that revenue authorities should wave certain personal income taxes to help businesses and traders survive this trying time.
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