Impact of Covid-19 on Cooperative Societies in Ibadan City, Nigeria
This paper explains the effects of COVID-19 locked down, which affected the whole world in the year 2020, on cooperative societies in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria. Qualitative data was collected through in-depth interviews from stakeholders within the metropolis. The result revealed that despite the fact that the pandemic has become a thing of the past. Cooperative Societies are still battling with its negative effects. Many of them are yet to operate optimally, just as they are financial issues which have rippled their activities, even three years after the pandemic. The implication is that members in most cases felt disturbed, discouraged and frustrated as the period of the lockdown was harrowing devoid of business activities through which cooperatives societies are functioning. The paper concluded that cooperatives societies need to adopt technology in their dealings while governments should always be ready and willing to confront such pandemic frontally in the future most especially the whistle of diphtheria outbreak which the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed to have entered the second wave in Nigeria. Keywords: COVID-19, Cooperatives Societies, Stakeholders, business activities, diphtheria.