Electronic Administration and COVID 19 Pandemic Opportunities and Challenges for Nigerian University Administration

Coronavirus disease COVID 19 has lay siege to all countries of the world and affected all facet of life of human beings. It led to the total partial lockdown of various sectors of the economy of most countries of the world. Nigeria also closed down almost all sectors of its economy, Nigerian Universities inclusive. The Federal Ministry of Education has ordered Nigerian Universities to close down academic activities from March 20th, 2020 to January 18th, 2021. This paper seeks to explore various opportunities provided by electronic administration for Nigerian Universities to continue to operate and be relevant during and post COVID 19 pandemic such opportunities include e learning, e meeting, e circular, e notification, virtual conference, e examination, e survey, database management among others. The paper also looks at the challenges that may hamper the utilization of these opportunities as epileptic power supply, lack of infrastructure, cost of data, inadequate finance, organizational culture, security and privacy, computer illiteracy, maintenance etc. The paper recommends renewable energy option for electricity, training and retraining of staff, more sophisticated security software among others. The paper uses secondary data to arrive at conclusion. This paper concludes that Electronic administration potentials if fully harnessed and utilized can help in the continuation of operation of Nigerian universities even during lockdown and closures. Mohammed Abbas | Dr. Aliyu Isa Chikaji "Electronic Administration and COVID-19 Pandemic: Opportunities and Challenges for Nigerian University Administration" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-3 , June 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/papers/ijtsrd58602.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/58602/electronic-administration-and-covid19-pandemic-opportunities-and-challenges-for-nigerian-university-administration/mohammed-abbas