Corruption And Sustainable Economic Development in Nigeria

Abstract

This study was embarked on to evaluate corruption and sustainable development in Nigeria. In the process of this study three specific objectives were formulated and three research questions were poses to guide the research. The major limitation was the inability of the researcher to retrieve some relevant materials for the study from internet sources and the management of time to produce the needed result. The literature review was organized in themes which directly look into the concepts under investigation. The study adopted structural functionalism as a theoretical frame work and expos facto design. The study used secondary source as method of data collection and content analysis as the method of data analysis. Afterword’s, The study found out that corruption has contributed to lack of sustainable Economic development in Nigeria and the study recommends that EFCC and other security apparatus should strategies ways to reduce corruption in Nigeria in order to bring about sustainable economic development in Nigeria