The first quarter of the year 2020 saw Nigeria grappling with covid-19, a deadly virus that broke out in the Wuhan city of China during the last quarter of 2019. This virus spread like wild fire to almost all parts of the world and heralded shut down of national and global economies. Prior to the period when the virus got to Nigeria, some Nigerian pastors had declared that distance was not a barrier and spiritually travelled to China to destroy the corona virus but became handicapped when the virus finally got to Nigeria. This paper, on the main, focuses on Churches in Nigeria. Based on both observer and participant point of view, this paper reveals that the economic hardship caused by prevalence of the virus made the Nigerian Church leaders to engage in different sides of critical thinking in order to survive. The paper reveals further that Pastors fall within the category of those that depend on daily income for survival who constitute the worst hit by covid-19 pandemic and its attendant lockdown. Drawing from both primary and secondary sources, the paper concludes that covid-19 exposed the spiritual and economic inadequacies of Nigerian pastors whose greatest problem during the covid-19 lockdown just like every other group was hunger, and adopted different strategies to survive as ban was placed on religious gathering.
Covid-19, Religion, Spirituality, Economy, Lockdown.
