Apart from the Nigerian health system’s weakness to handle large numbers of COVID-19 patients, poverty is a problem. This means congested masses of crowds of urban poor in Lagos, Kano, Onitsha, Aba etc. in their daily struggle for subsistence. @NigeriaGov must shutdown Nigeria
Completely. For a period of one month. To reduce community spread and give time for more contact tracing and to deal with medical emergency of treatments while it can still be handled. The army should enforce this across the country. Even in several advanced countries compliance
with shut-downs is problematic, not to speak of a country in which education and literacy levels are not what they should be. There has to be stronger communication in local languages about the coronavirus. Then, what to do about the loss of livelihood for the many already-poor?
This is where the country's extremely weak economy and empty financial coffers becomes really painful. The budgets of the federal and state governments must now be COMPLETELY reprogrammed to focus on Covid-19 in 2020. Pretty much little else except security should matter now.
The @cenbank fund for small businesses and families won't be enough. The Bank as a monetary authority can't do everything, including things the fiscal authorities should be doing. Therefore, the federal and state governments must plan for subsistence funding of EVERY poor family
in Nigeria for a 3-6 month period with reprogrammed budgets. We have to be innovative in this crisis.
