COVID-19 AND ITS IMPACTS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLES OF RESEARCHERS IN NIGERIA
1OLANIPEKUN Shola Sunday,2 GARUBA Ismaila Ayinde, and 3ABDULMUMINI Yekeen
1General Studies Education Department, Kwara State College of Education (Tech.),
Lafiagi Kwara State, Nigeria
2Agric Science Education Department, Kwara State College of Education (Tech.), Lafiagi
33Department of Educational Foundations, Kwara State College of Education (Tech.),
Lafiagi
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Abstract
COVID-19, as a pandemic, is impacting institutions around the world. Its scope and economic dimensions mean that it poses a major threat towards achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this regard, this paper discussed how the coronavirus pandemic have impacted the SDGs and affected their implementation. These impacts are felt through economic recession, the number of people thrown into poverty, increase in the rate of unemployment, national health risk among others. It is in line with these points that this study set out to examine sustainable development issues in Nigeria, COVID-19 and its impacts on sustainable development, since many nations seem to be falling behind in meeting the SDGs’ targets. This paper further discussed the roles of researchers in achieving sustainable development in the COVID-19 era. One of these roles was that researchers should investigate the economic impacts of the pandemic in order to find out how to overcome the negative economic impacts of the virus. Also, African researchers and scholars must not over rely on the coronavirus vaccine from the West. There is no way African society will be developed by foreign researchers with their foreign thought system. It was concluded that the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable development in Nigeria had negative socio-economic consequences for the country.
Keywords: COVID-19, Impacts, Sustainable Development, Researchers and Roles
COVID-19 AND ITS IMPACTS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLES OF RESEARCHERS IN NIGERIA
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