40% of West Africa’s 450 million population should have social protection —OTUWA

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As the global COVID-19 pandemic revealed the vulnerability and weakness of the world healthcare system especially in Africa, causing economic meltdown across countries with terrifying inflation, skyrocketing unemployment rate and unleashing severe hardship to families, the provision of a wide social protection coverage as a productive counter measure to revive families from falling deeper into the abyss of poverty was the dominant discuss at the recent workshop of the Organisation of Trade Unions of West Africa (OTUWA).

Speaking with journalists at the side of the workshop in Abuja, the General Secretary of OTUWA, Comrade John Oda, said the goal was to ensure that 40 per cent of…



Source: Nigerian Tribune