Covid 19, Human Security and Pandemic Management: Unravelling The Social Perception in Nigeria

Abstract

Covid 19 has become a terrible wind that blows from one country to another in the globe. It has carried in it, powerful forces that affects the way  that humanity lived their lives. This study focused on the Covid 19 pandemic in Nigeria. It used primary data that were collected from a number of  states and the Federal Capital territory to analyse the growing wind of the pandemic and how the Nigerian masses has perceived the pandemic. The  study found that the pandemic caused massive loss of lives thereby threatening human security. It also had multiple forms of economic effects.  The researchers recommend increased government investment in the healthcare sector and the transformation of the national economy as  a way of managing the place of poverty, which has strong negative implication for the sustenance of the pandemic in the country.