This study explored 'Effects of Covic-19 Pandemic on Organizational Transformation and Employees Performance' with specific focus on Veritas University Abuja, Nigeria. Corona Virus is a pandemic of monumental consequences to health, world economy and well-being of individual that changes our ways of life. The goal of this investigation was to ascertain the degree to which Covid-19 driven change impact positively on employees' and organizational performance. Literatures were reviewed and a survey and descriptive research design was adopted. 438 questionnaires were dispersed via expediency sampling technique to staff from different programmes. Nevertheless, only 394 questionnaires which were properly filled and retuned were used for the analysis. Quantitative approach, which involved using the ranking data's Spearman rank correlation coefficient for data analysis. The findings posit that Covid-19 driven transformations have both positive and negative connection with the employees' performance and job satisfaction. This shows that Covid-19 driven transformations does not encourage staff to deliver better work, and the result thus, is high employees' turnover. Finding further depict that, the Covid-19 motivated transformations have positive relationship with organizational performance as per the level of expectations. The researchers recommended that, institutions or firms should embrace the conventional 'new normal' behavior of performing task and responsibility, build hi-tech capability and show flexibility and desire to embrace changes in technology.

The world has experienced a decline in maternal and child mortality in the last few decades, increase in global health expenditure over the years was the major factor responsible for that. But in Africa and other developing countries, the rate of maternal and child mortality has been soaring. The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of health expenditure on maternal and child mortality in African countries at different income level. On this note, the paper was based on the panel data covering the period of 2000 to 2017 for 39 African countries. After a cross sectional dependence test and panel unit root test, fixed effect results showed that, government health expenditure has no significant impact on reducing child mortality in African countries at all income level. Whereas, it has an impact on reducing the maternal mortality in low-income and lower middle income countries. It was also found that Private health expenditure has significant impact on reducing child and maternal mortality at all income level. Based on this, the paper recommends that governments at different level especially from low-income and lower middle income countries should provide quality health care services and regular immunization for women and children in order to reduce maternal and child mortality in Africa region.

In recent years, many changes in commercial activities have increased significantly. Electronic commerce continues to grow, but payment methods for services are growing, such as virtual currency. The acceptability and use of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies globally attracted the attention of economists and other financial experts in recent times. Nigeria is one of the most crypto-adopting countries globally. Still, the central bank recently issued astatement that appeared to be a ban on the usage of Bitcoin and other digital assets in the country. However, the scenario has changed as cryptocurrency grows and thrives in the country. Based on this, this study aims to examine the impact of Bitcoin on the exchange rate in Nigeria. The main independent variable is Bitcoin price volatility, specified as BTCE and controlled by the consumer price index and interest rate. The study used monthly time series data from January 2015 to December 2020 and analyzed using the Autoregressive Distributed lag model (ARDL). The result shows that Bitcoin price significantly affects the exchange rate in both the short and long run. A Higher Bitcoin price implies an appreciation of the domestic currency. Therefore, we recommend that the Nigerian government pay attention to the movement of cryptocurrency prices.

This study explored 'Effects of Covic-19 Pandemic on Organizational Transformation and Employees Performance' with specific focus on Veritas University Abuja, Nigeria. Corona Virus is a pandemic of monumental consequences to health, world economy and well-being of individual that changes our ways of life. The goal of this investigation was to ascertain the degree to which Covid-19 driven change impact positively on employees' and organizational performance. Literatures were reviewed and a survey and descriptive research design was adopted. 438 questionnaires were dispersed via expediency sampling technique to staff from different programmes. Nevertheless, only 394 questionnaires which were properly filled and retuned were used for the analysis. Quantitative approach, which involved using the ranking data's Spearman rank correlation coefficient for data analysis. The findings posit that Covid-19 driven transformations have both positive and negative connection with the employees' performance and job satisfaction. This shows that Covid-19 driven transformations does not encourage staff to deliver better work, and the result thus, is high employees' turnover. Finding further depict that, the Covid-19 motivated transformations have positive relationship with organizational performance as per the level of expectations. The researchers recommended that, institutions or firms should embrace the conventional 'new normal' behavior of performing task and responsibility, build hi-tech capability and show flexibility and desire to embrace changes in technology.