OPINION – Covid-19: Why Are States Falling Apart? Adewale Kupoluyi(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many lessons have been learned during this season of lockdown occasioned by the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The federal and state governments have unfolded health, social, and financial packages to confront the pandemic headlong. Unfortunately, discordant tunes coming from state governments have elicited grave concern that cannot be shoved aside. Irrespective of what programmes the various state governments have put in place, a centrally-planned response to the pandemic should be the way to go.