How a pandemic is increasing national coordination in Nigeria

Private organizations, religious groups, and the government are working together for the first time in 21 years of democracy. All it took was a global pandemic.

The Lagos State Government launched an 80-bed isolation center at Landmark, Oniru. Photo Credit: Babajide Sanwo-Olu

On the 18th of March 2020, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was aired on national television, and in a nationwide broadcast to the German people she uttered the words: “Since World War II, there has…