Nigeria’s 8-year Long COVID’ as Buhari Struggles With Economy

Nigeria’s 8-year Long COVID’ as Buhari Struggles With Economy

Author: Africa Business Radio December 13, 2022 Duration: 27:56
In the Lead up to 2023, when elections are expected to take place for a new government to replace the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, now into its seven years and six months, it is becoming clearer that long before the outbreak of
COVID-19 in late 2019 in China and across the world in 2020, Nigeria has been suffering its own ‘long COVID’, long-lasting symptoms that afflict people who have suffered a case of covid-19.
With the economy in a tailspin since 2014, the Buhari government, it is now clear, has been unable to rise from an apprenticeship approach in economic policy formulation to deal with the major challenges that have confronted the economy in the last seven and a half years.

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