ABSTRACT
Drawing on the reactions of local experts in public health and health finance, this article traces the course of the pandemic in Nigeria, and discusses the measures taken to contain it, public compliance or non-compliance with those measures, and the inadequacy and underfunding of infection prevention methods. The article also assesses the pandemic situation in Port Harcourt and the thriving black market for food and other items on the Okike waterfront. The author asks whether the pandemic might be an opportunity to reorganise the Nigerian health care system, but is not optimistic.
