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Covid-19 has interrupted every facet of life, especially education. The persistent need to develop and carry out a different instructive and evaluation systems to in-class teaching and learning brought about web based teaching. The rising question is “how ready are lecturers and students to change and adapt to the new system (online) of teaching, learning and assessment landscape”? The study adopted a content analysis method for data collection from existing literature to validate evidence how covid-19 affects teaching, learning and assessment system in higher institutions of learning. the paper concluded that online learning and teaching have become no choice alternative for teachers and students despite the challenges posed. Both teachers and students have to adapt to various online platforms that are available in order to keep education system moving. The paper recommended among other thigs, that universities across the globe should come-up with strategies to design academic curriculum for post Covid-19; universities should approach government for financial in order to strengthen their information communication technology (ICT) structure; training in the use of information technology (IT) should be encourage among academic staff and students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid-19 has become a major issue of academic and social discourses. Lives, livelihoods, communities and businesses have been seriously disrupted by its dramatic spread across the globe. Statistics reveal that 55 countries are affected in Africa and South Africa is the most affected with 1.55million out of 4.32million cases in Africa, as at April 8, 2021. The pandemic has prompted a number of responses from governments, individuals, business organisations and Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) to inventive and reduce the impact on public health and economic challenges. Although some of these were taken as part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, their contributions appeared to go beyond their traditional CSR efforts. This paper seeks to establish the extent of Coca-Cola and Mobile Telephone Network’s (MTN) responses to the challenges of the pandemic in Nigeria and South Africa. Data used were extracted from grey literature and online search to examine the two companies’ corporate social responsibility in health emergency situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]