COVID-19 AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR UNITED STATES-CHINA RELATIONS, 2019-2021

SUMMARY

So far, the study has succeeded in examining the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on crime, poverty and unemployment in Nigeria and its threat to the actualization of the sustainable development goals. Generally, the study found that crime, poverty, and unemployment surged during the pandemic. Specifically, the study findings on crime show an increase in organized crime, rising level of cyber-crime, growing violent crime, extra-judicial killings as well as palliative fraud while fall in real Gross Domestic Product, agrifood system GDP, and spread of poverty to urban areas, were found to be the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on poverty. Similarly, the study findings on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment show that, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise was badly affected, people lost their jobs, underemployment and youth unemployment worsened during the pandemic. The impact of the pandemic on crime, poverty and unemployment has multiplying effects on the attainment of sustainable development goals.