| Abstrakt: |
This study examined the nexus between COVID-19 pandemic and social problems in Nigeria, with focus on its perceived threat to the attainment of Sustainable development Goals, SDGs. Specifically, the paper examined the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on crime, poverty, and unemployment in Nigeria. Methodologically, the study made use of secondary source of data and content analysis. The study findings on crime show an increase in organized crime, rising level of cyber crime, violent crime, gender-based domestic violence, extra-judicial killings as well as palliative fraud while fall in real Gross Domestic Product, agrifood system GDP, and spread of poverty to urban areas, hunger and starvation, among others, were found to be the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on poverty. Similarly, the study findings on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment show that, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise was badly affected, people lost their jobs, underemployment and youth unemployment worsened during the pandemic Recommendations were made in the areas of poverty alleviation, employment generation, skill acquisition programmes, apprenticeship scheme and other forms of technical and vocational training in order to reduce the levels of crime, poverty and unemployment in Nigeria. On the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical measures on the pandemic's protocol should be strictly adhered to. Temporally, palliative measures can be given in order to cushion the effects of the pandemic which will go a long way in reducing the levels of crime, poverty, and unemployment in Nigeria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
