Abstract:

The study focused on re-examining the Covid – 19 palliatives as they relate to the Nigeria social contract vis – a – vis the coronavirus pandemic. Consequently, the paper posits that the incidence of the coronavirus pandemic exposed the weakness of the Nigeria social contract occasion to the poor management of the Federal government palliative in the country. The paper, therefore, extracts and examines the Nigeria social contract policy vis-a-vis the distributed palliatives during the ranging coronavirus pandemic. It also examined the constitutive element of Nigeria’s social contract policy and the distribution of palliative during the coronavirus pandemic. To investigate this, the study collected data through secondary sources and analyzed the data using content analysis. The paper raised a host of questions and also specifically examined issues relating to what lessons can be drawn from the management of government palliative during the Covid – 19 in Nigeria, how can the derived lessons facilitate and improve the Nigeria social contract policy, the role and role challenges on Nigeria government in reforming and reforcing the social contract law as its relation to the distribution of palliative in the event of another pandemic. Finally, the paper concluded and made some policy prescriptions.