Epidemiology and an epistemic evaluation of the management of COVID-19 in Nigeria

ABSTRACT

The aim of this chapter is to propose a plausible paradigm for the management of pandemics, using Nigeria in the wake of COVID-19, as a case study. Given the daily geometric increase, since the first index case, in the spread of the coronavirus in Nigeria regardless of the lockdown measures in many states of the federation, the Nigerian government seems to be at a loss on how best to stem its tide. In this chapter, we locate the problem of the inability of the Nigerian government to reasonably restrain the daily spread of the coronavirus in the epistemic transaction about the activities of the government in the management of the pandemic. Therefore, we employ the analytic and evaluative method to critically interrogate the information transfer in the management of COVID-19 in Nigeria. We conclude that if we are to appropriately manage pandemics in the country, we need a commitment to the truth of the situation at hand, be unified in our efforts, and be transparent in the transfer of information about the pandemic. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. All rights reserved.