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COVID-19 and Insecurity in Northern Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2022

Yusuf Hassan Wada Open the ORCID record for Yusuf Hassan Wada [Opens in a new window] ,
Shuaibu Saidu Musa ,
Shingin Kovona Musa ,
Muhammad Kabir Musa ,
Tijjani Ibrahim Bakabe ,
Abba Khalid Abdullahi ,
Attaullah Ahmadi  and
Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III
Yusuf Hassan Wada*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria
Shuaibu Saidu Musa
Affiliation:
Department of Nursing Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Shingin Kovona Musa
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Muhammad Kabir Musa
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Tijjani Ibrahim Bakabe
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Abba Khalid Abdullahi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Attaullah Ahmadi
Affiliation:
Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan
Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III
Affiliation:
Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom Faculty of Management and Development Studies, University of the Philippines (Open University), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
*
Corresponding author: Yusuf Hassan Wada, Email: hasawa2011@gmail.com.
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Abstract

Northern Nigeria is currently facing a twin crisis of both coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and insecurity. They have made it difficult for the people to follow government containment efforts to control the pandemic and also have impacted on the socioeconomic and health aspects of the society. We have discussed on the impact of insecurity amid COVID-19 in Northern Nigeria. It is opined that, if the insecurity in Northern Nigeria is not tackled, it will expose the region to more escalation of cases and deaths. Thus, it is recommended that proactive steps should be implemented by all stakeholders concerned to tackle insecurity, particularly the government to revive the security architecture, provide an environment for training and retraining of all security personnel and enhancing intelligence gathering to pave the way for resolving this issue.

Keywords

COVID-19insecurityviolencebanditryNorthern Nigeriakidnapping
Type
Commentary
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , December 2022 , pp. 2287 - 2289
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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