TIMBOU-AFRICA ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS MAY, 2021 EDITIONS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF: TIJASDR 241 AFRICAN SUSTAINABLE DEV. RESEARCH VOL.5 ISSN: 2067-4112 OVID-19 PANDEMIC AND RELATED LOCKDOWN REGULATIONS: WHAT A CHALLENGE TO THE CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA NUHU MUKHTAR NUHU; MISBAHU SHEHU KAREFA; & ABUBAKAR ABDULLAHI DAHIRU Department of Social Sciences, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso College of Advanced and Remedial Studies, Tudun-Wada Dankadai, Kano State Introduction oronavirus (COVID-19) originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019; the COVID-19 pandemic has spread to over 177 countries and territories around the world (Readfern, 2020). As the pandemic spread like fire in the bush, most of the nations in the world legislated and implemented social restrictions and lockdowns (social distancing, closing non-essential businesses and services, restricting local movement, etc.) all in an efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus (Ashby, 2020). Most of the social interactions changed online, as did the education, with the ways in which we interact changing suddenly, in many cases literally overnight. With the introduction of social distancing and lockdowns, it was soon apparent that the unanticipated effects upon education in Nigeria could be dramatic (Farrell and Tilley, 2020). This quickly led to the closure of schools, colleges C C ABSTRACT The novel coronavirus (COVID – 19) pandemic has put a big question mark to global education. The outbreak of Coronavirus redirected governmental relations to restrictions of movement of persons, closed down schools and other activities globally for the reason to protect lives and minimize the spreads of the disease. Despite the lockdown TIMBOU-AFRICA ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, MAY, 2021 EDITIONS VOL. 5 NO. 2 ISSN: 2067-4112 INTERNATIONAL JOUNAL OF: AFRICAN SUSTAINABLE DEV. RESEARCH