COVID-19 AND FACTORS INFLUENCING NON ADHERENCE TO PROTOCOLS AGAINST INFECTION IN SABON-WUSE, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

A sample of sixty (6()J respondents residing in Sabon-wuse was drawn cutting across all strata of the population of twelve thousand f 12.000). The questionnaire and in-depth interviews were used as major instruments for gathering primary data from the respondents while secondary data were sourced from journals, hooks, reports, articles, speeches, and online documents. 1 he World System and Dependency Theories were used to explain COV ID-19 in Subon-wuse. Findings suggest that the lockdown, social distancing, hand-washing, and wearing of masks measures introduced by the government to curb the rising trends of COVID-19 negates the Socio-cultural. financial, and religious stand of the people. This also affected their daily means of livelihood their need for congregational prayers, and their spiritual obligations in groups'. Ceremonies like burials, marriages, naming, amongst others. It also contradicts the practice of solidarity with cultural ceremonies. The study recommends that government should create more awareness on the dangers the virus causes and the need for citizens to break this cultural belief with concrete evidence of images of the people infected by the virus to further convince the respondents that it is not coloured with the money-making venture.