THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 IN NIGERIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health issue, though, Nigeria has its own experience of fighting it. From Wuhan in China to the rest of the world, the Nigerian government was not expediently proactive in preventing the scourge until it landed on its soil. This is the bane of the situation. This paper avails a secondary approach to collecting its data for this study while adopting qualitative/descriptive analysis to examine and analyse the chain of events during the pandemic. As to the purpose of this study, this paper unravels a number of issues and challenges confronted while arresting the spread of the virus. The position of this paper, therefore, is for the government, which is saddled with the responsibility to protect the lives and property of its citizenry, sheathe levity and partisanship while tackling an outbreak such as this in the future.