A CRITICAL REFLECTION ON COVID-19 PALLIATIVE SAGA IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS OF HUMAN GREED

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic that is ravaging the world has exposed both the positive and negative traits of the human person; it has highlighted the best and the worst in the human person. It has shown that human beings are capable of both altruism and egoism. As has become the case in recent history, Nigeria seems to receive the worst of almost everything. Hence, though Nigeria is not as badly hit by the virus itself as other countries of the world, the resultant economic effects are apparently more devastating on the Nigerian population than they have been elsewhere. This paper examines the controversies surrounding the Covid-19 palliatives in Nigeria. It argues that the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent palliative saga that emanated from the #Endsars protests in Nigeria have exposed the selfishness of most of our politicians and public officials. The main thesis of this paper is that the COVID-19 palliative in Nigeria was mismanaged as a result of human greed. Using the expository and the analytic methods this paper highlights the problem of corruption as it affects the distribution of the COVID-19 palliative in Nigeria. It concludes that the Covid-19 pandemic is a welcome occurrence in this regard in as much it is understood as a call for the re-evaluation of our values.