Civil Service Reforms in Nigeria from 1960 – 2018
Journal Title: BEST : International Journal of Humanities , Arts, Medicine and Sciences ( BEST : IJHAMS ) - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 6
Abstract
Nations all over the world are currently in the struggle to better their existence through the process of good governance, and responsible civil service for effective and efficient service delivery. Nigeria is one of such countries. However, the kind of civil service bequeathed to Nigeria by her colonial master was alien and narrow in scope, and so not development oriented. At Nigeria independence in 1960, the federal civil service had a Staff strength of only 30,000, this increased steadily to the level of 200,000 in the late 1990s due to political patronage. Many unqualified personnel joined the Civil Service which resulted to oversized workforce that absorbed about 87% of the total government revenue. The paper examined the civil service reforms in Nigeria from independence to the present and how they affected efficient and effective service delivery in the country. It is the position of paper that the kind of civil service reform that would tackle these problems should be evolutionary and pragmatic in nature to meet Nigeria developmental needs and the challenges of the modern world.
Authors and Affiliations
Enoch Gembu Stephen, Ike Festus Odili
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP371098
- DOI -
- Views 155
- Downloads 0
Poverty As Property in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, the debut novel, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2008. The White Tiger is Sharp, Fascinating, attack poverty and inequality without being sentimental. The novel provides a darkl...
Higher Education as a Tool for Woman Empowerment in Rural Areas: An Analytical Study with Special Reference to Kakopather Development Block, Tinsukia
Higher Education as a tool for Woman Empowerment in rural areas: An analytical study with special reference to Kakopather Development Block, Tinsukia. Woman Empowerment is a global issue. At present, it is not only the m...
Optimization of Various Extraction Methods for Quercetin from Onion Skin
Onion (allium cepa L.) is the second most important horticultural crop worldwide, with an annual production of 66 million tons (FAO statistics, 2010). Large amounts of onion waste are produced both domestically and indus...
Comparison of Application Resopnse Surface Methodology and Taguchi Method in the Optimization of Extraction of Novel Pectinase Enzyme Discovered in Red Pitaya (Hylocereus Polyrhizus) Peel
Peels from plant might be a likely origin of novel pectinases for use in industrial applications, due to their broad substrate specificity, with high stability under extreme conditions. Here, different plan was used to c...
Supply Chain Models for Small-Scale Agricultural Business
Small-scale agricultural production enterprises have been under immense economic pressures for many years. It is our belief that, a convenient impact can be made on small farm business, through the development and applic...