COVID 19 Pandemic: A Threat to Quality Higher Education in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper examined the ways by which Covid-19 had constituted itself to be a threat to effective operation of Nigerian higher education. The paper however examined the concepts, the related issues such as total lockdown, social distancing, community transmission, boarders closed, hunters, governmentneglect, use of nose mask, advocating for virtual classroom without correspondent preparation, truncatedsalary ofworkers, allwhich had affected the quality of the tertiary education in Nigeria. The neglect during the Covid-19 pandemic had affected the quality of Teaching, research and community service operation of the Lecturers. It was noted that the problems of the pandemic scared the Federal government in Nigeria to open the schools because there was no preparation to tackle the expected problems likeovercrowded classroom, school overpopulation, inadequate classrooms. It was however concluded that that Covid -19 constituted great threat to the quality delivery of Nigerian higher education. It was recommended that more classrooms, infrastructural facilities and more Teaching staff are needed to be provided in Nigeria higher education so that quality can be delivered and assured at post covid-19 Pandemic situations in the country Nigeria.