DETERMINING THE RELIABILITY OF CORONA VIRUS DISEASE PANDEMIC: ASSESSMENT OF THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPLICATIONS AND PERSONAL ECONOMYOF PEOPLE IN NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA

Since January 2020, no country in Africa is free from Corona Victims Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Coronavirus is a deadly disease that make up a large family of victms that infected humans. Also there is no any individual or family member that is at peace and free from the anxiety and phobia of CO VID-19 pandemic. Some are crying because of CO VI D-l 9, are sick, while some died, some business centres mere closed, some don’t have food to eat, some use the opportunity to cheat others order some in to enriched themselves. Churches, Mosques, schools and offices were closed, conferences, seminars, workshop Called of or postponed because of the global deadly and devilish disease COVID 19 pandemic. This research is an action research its thrust is to assesses the implications of corona virus disease pandemic on the psychosocial and personal economy among people of Kejji Local Government Area of Nasarawa Slate, Nigeria. Descriptive surrey research design was used. The target population of the study consist 650 people within the research environment and simple random sampling techniques was used to sampled 249 respondents. COV'ID-19 Psychosocial and Personal Economic (C-19PPE) was used as an instrumentfor data collection. The instrument was validated by experts in psychology and economics and the reliability index of 0.87 was obtained. Eludings from the study revealed that the issue of CO VID-19 pandemic really affects people psychologically and economically. It recommend* among others that, everyone should adhere strictly to the preventing measures and they should think how to improve themselves psychological and economically in order to increase their standards level of living.