International records / OpenAlex research

Nigeria

Abstract Although the Nigerian government responded quickly to COVID-19, the pandemic tested its capacity to manage such a large-scale economic crisis. The government hurriedly imposed the lockdown, school closures and other emergency restrictions without adequate preparation and little consultation with appropriate stakeholders. Consequently, this had a detrimental effect on the Nigerian society at large but pertinently on the nation's most vulnerable people. While the government offered support in response to the downturn in economic activity and other effects of the emergency restrictions, …