COVID-19: LOCKDOWN AND HUNGER, ARMED ROBBERIES AND VIGILANTES (PART 2).

The Lockdown

A lockdown is an emergency protocol that usually prevents people or information from leaving an area. In terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown is used for actions related to mass quarantines which can limit movements, activities in a community that only organizations supplying basic needs and services can function normally.

Empty streets in Lagos as a result of the Lockdown

Between 23rd -27th March 2020, the Lagos state government imposed a partial lockdown on Lagos state which included a curfew, closure of primary and secondary schools and all markets selling non-essentials (all commodities except food and drugs and financial service providers). There was also restriction of movement in various areas of the state and increased sensitization of the citizenry on measures to avoid the

COVID-19: OF LOCKDOWN AND HUNGER, ARMED ROBBERIES AND VIGILANTES (PART 1)

A Brief History of COVID -19 and Its Entry into Nigeria

I first heard about the COVID-19 pandemic in January, 2020 and it was through series of astonishing description by the media both print and social media. COVID-19 stands for the Corona Virus Disease 2019 a respiratory disease causes by a newly discovered Coronavirus which began spreading and killing people in the Chinese town of Wuhan in December, 2019. The deaths that followed this epidemic raised eyebrows and still struck many folks in Africa as a white man’s myth. Its origin and cause puzzled scientists worldwide and with its death toll rising by the hours, it was