Social Media and Issues in Covid-19 Pandemic: Nigeria in Dilemma

Abstract

In addition to the already existing hardship in Nigeria,
social media which is supposed to be a beneficial tool
for the spread of authentic news was used to spread fake
news during the covid 19 pandemic era. The Apart from
prescription of drugs, some scammers went as far as
scamming people, asking people to click on fraudulent
links. Due to the boring stay at home order some yahoo
boys use the opportunity to dupe their victims using love
scam. Due to these evils perpetrated by social media
users, people were suffering and it affected the economy
badly. The paper adopted secondary method of data
collection. After the collection of data, content analysis
was used to analyze data generated from secondary
sources and anchored on information processing
theory. The study investigated the impact of social
media on information about COVID- 19 and the degree
to which COVID- 19 affected the Nigerian economy.
The study revealed that social media significantly
influenced spread of information about covid -19. It also
revealed that COVID- 19 negatively affected the
economy. The paper recommended as follows:
Government should put up policies against false
information from social media users. Government
should invest more money on human capital
development and the economy needs diversification.