Open AccessCovid-19, Socio-Economic Impact and the Nigerian Government: An Overview
Author(s) -
Idowu SS
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of quality in health care and economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2642-6250
DOI - 10.23880/jqhe-16000247
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , language change , covid-19 , investment (military) , business , economic growth , scale (ratio) , pandemic , development economics , public economics , economics , political science , geography , medicine , art , philosophy , linguistics , literature , disease , cartography , pathology , politics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
The outbreak of Covid-19 has both local and global implications with the response at both levels. However, national governments are the major player and device strategy and measures to lessen the negative impact on their populace. This paper carried out an overview of the Nigerian case with emphasis on the social and economic sides vis-à-vis government palliatives response measures. The analytical design was used to critically examine secondary data while the social contract theory was employed as a framework. The findings reveal that the Nigerian government efforts to lessen the adverse effects of the pandemic produced minimal impact due to government unpreparedness, corruption and administrative laxity. It recommends that the Nigerian governments should scale up their level of preparation for emergency situations and ramp up investment in the health sector for better performance amongst others.