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The Effect of COVID-19 on Nigeria Tertiary Institutions: Challenges and Prospects

Abstract

Adedotun Jamiu Saka

Education as one of the major bane of national development was grossly affected by the virus. Education is so important that it is listed as goal number four (4) of the seventeen (17) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to transform the world. As part of governmental policies to check the spread of the virus and reduce the mortality rate, schools all over the world were shut down, at such some schools have to operate through online platform. Hence, this study focus on challenges Tertiary Institutions encounter amid the pandemic and prospects of overcoming the challenges were discussed. This paper adopted secondary data; the data was collected through newspapers, publications and journals.