Samuel, Adelakun Iyanuoluwa (2021)

The place of ICT and E-Learning cannot be overlooked in the dynamic world of today where the crude ways of teaching and learning process is gradually changing to digital forms. The days of you must seat physically with the teacher before learning can take place is now becoming the thing of the past. Nigeria as a developing country is trying to meet up with the standards of advanced countries in order to be able to fit in into the changing world. The sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which originated from the city of Wuhan, China, has become a major public health challenge for not only China but also countries all over the world, this have on the long run led to the closure of schools all over the world; on March 19, 2020 Nigerian government through the federal ministry of education ordered the closure of all schools at various levels, nevertheless learning must continue if we don't want our learners in all levels to misplace their priorities in life; in the quest of this, E-leaning which is the alternative method to physical classroom teaching-leaning process is gradually being uphold during the pandemic lockdown of schools. Unfortunately this has not been more effective because of the noticeable challenges facing this new development. This paper is to examine what e-learning is, it place during the coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria; the challenges of e-learning during this period will be look into and suggestions will be made as way forward in order to have effective and efficient e-learning processes amid coronavirus pandemic and subsequent outbreaks that may lead to the closure of school without interruption of teaching-learning process.