COVID-19 significantly altered individual patterns of interaction across the globe. The impediment on physical contact and emphasis on social distancing as measures of curbing its spread gave rise to new forms of interactions among individuals. In the ensuing new normal, digital life took the center stage, anchoring engaging and meaningful interactions of individuals in both public and private spheres. This study appraises the adoption of digital life in Nigeria during this period. Hinged on the technological determinism theory, the study examines the sudden digital migration in Nigeria and identifies the factors that facilitated the process, on the one hand, and the obstacles that inhibited it, on the other. Using secondary data derived from books, official websites, and media reports, the study has established that although the Nigerian society adopted digital life as alternative to face-to-face interactions out of expedience, a combination of systemic, structural, socioeconomic, and environmental factors constrained the process with grave implications on the overall (expected) impact to both individual and national developments. The study concludes that effective digitization in Nigeria requires a holistic approach toward addressing germane issues that retard socioeconomic development in the country—such as endemic poverty, structural inequality and class differences, uneven development between urban and rural communities, low computer literacy and information and communications technology (ICTs) access, poor electricity supply, poor global system for mobile communication (GSM) and Internet access, gender factor and vulnerable groups, and digital frauds—in order to create the enabling environment for productive digitization to thrive.

COVID-19极大地改变了全球互动的个体模式。限制身体接触的障碍和强调社会距离作为遏制其传播的措施，引起了人们之间新的互动形式。在随之而来的新常态中，数字生活占据了中心位置，在公共和私人领域中锚定了个人的互动性和有意义的互动。这项研究评估了这一时期在尼日利亚的数字生活的采用。借助技术决定论理论，该研究考察了尼日利亚的突然数字迁移，一方面确定了促进这一进程的因素，另一方面又发现了阻碍这一进程的障碍。使用从书籍，官方网站和媒体报道中获得的辅助数据，该研究已经确定，尽管尼日利亚社会出于便利目的而采用数字生活作为面对面互动的替代方式，但系统性，结构性，社会经济和环境因素的组合却限制了这一过程，对总体（预期）影响产生了严重影响对个人和国家发展都是如此。研究得出的结论是，尼日利亚有效的数字化需要采取整体方法来解决阻碍该国社会经济发展的德国问题，例如地方性贫困，结构性不平等和阶级差异，城乡社区之间发展不平衡，计算机素养低下以及信息和通信技术（ICT）访问，电力供应不畅，全球移动通信系统（GSM）和互联网访问不畅，