Covid-19 Pandemic Era and Delegated Legislations in Nigeria

Abstract

A lot of laws and policies have been promulgated amidst of Covid-19 by administrative authorities in planning to eradicate or reduce the spread of corona virus in Nigeria and most often these regulations seem to have mixed results. Hence, the researcher therefore decides to study ‘Covid-19 pandemic era and delegated legislation in Nigeria’. The researcher employed explanatory research method and he made use of secondary data sourced from internet, mostly from PTF and NCDC data base. The data used in analysis is in quantitative form and percentage technique was used in analyzing and evaluating the data. Hence, the result of the analysis indicates that in the month of September, the testing capacity increased to 62.6% and in reaction, at the same month, the confirmed cases instead of responding at the same rate with testing capacity, it increased by only 51%. The result indicates 23.2% (i.e. 25.2%-2%) variation between the increased testing capacity and increased confirmed cases between the month of August and September. Hence, the null hypothesis is rejected and therefore the researcher concludes that delegated legislation has positive and significant impact on the move to reduce the spread of Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. In sequence to the stated objective of this study, the result of the analysis and the research’s conclusion, the researcher recommends that government and its agencies should come up with measures to ensure complete adherence to delegated legislations of various regulatory bodies in Nigeria in mitigating the spread of Covid-19, the government should also consider the adverse effects of those delegated legislation on the citizens and the economy at large and at the same time plan ahead on how to manage such ugly situation if occurred.