Public Administration Research Papers/Topics

PROBLEMS OF ETHNICITY IN THE NIGERIA FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT

INTRODUCTION Since Nigeria had political independence in 1960 certain key problems have played dominant roles in determining the nature, character and direction of government and politics in the country.  Most of these issues have been described by scholars and commentators on Nigeria politics as the legacies of the country’s colonial experience, whose origins can be traced back to the almost one hundred years of colonial domination. One of the issues or fall-outs of the Nigerian federal ...

THE ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF ANAMBRA STATE CIVIL SERVICE

ABSTRACT Civil Service as a government institution plays important part in insuring that government policies result in tangible services for the population. In fact, without the body of professional civil servants, national government cannot function effectively and efficiently. In Nigeria, the Federal Civil Service has been enmeshed in myriads of problems: weak governance structure, red-tapism, weak accountability, low professional standards, waste and corruption, poor productivity, and lack...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (A CASE STUDY OF ETSAKO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE)

ABSTRACT This work was undertaken with a view to ascertaining the effort made so far in the area of rural development in Nigeria with a focus on Etsako West Local government Area of Edo state as a case study, which delved into the following areas. Evaluation of the performance of Etsako West local government   council with reference to their service to the rural dwellers and the relationship between the local government council and the people.  The method of the research work for these stu...

THE IMPACTS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF IDEMILI LOCAL GOVERNMENT)

ABSTRACT In this research work, the researcher intended to have a general discussion with local government as my background.  But lack of space may not allow me for detailed discussion and analysis. However, all essentials part of the impacts of local government administration on  economic and social development in Nigeria are discussed. In chapter one, I discussed the background, the problem, purpose of the study, scope, hypothesis, significance and some definition terms.  In chapter two,...

THE IMPACT OF WOMEN PARTICIPATION ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEM ON NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF ABIA STATE)

ABSTRACT Nigeria women has been relegated to the background of Nigeria politics in this research we set out to study the political participation of women in Abia State.  And to know why women have not been achieving involved in the process of shaping the political system.  The objectives of this research work is to find out if women are actively involved in the politics of Abia State.  And again, to find out factors responsible for how level of women participating in the politics of Abia S...

THE INFLUENCE OF MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF GUNINNESS NIGERIA PLC)

ABSTRACT The main focus of this research work is to examine the influence of multi-national co-operations in the economic development of Nigeria.  MNC’s are agent of development in the sense that they constitute the source of capital investment, employment for the people, technological transfer etc.  However, many detest their existence because they are agents of exploitation of the people they came to develop. In this regard, the objectives of this work is to ascertain the extent of invo...

NATIONALIZATION, PRIVATIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF BUSINESS

NATIONALIZATION, PRIVATIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF BUSINESSES  NATIONALIZATION This simple means the taking over or acquisition of previously privately owned business enterprises by the government for ownership and control. This was what happened in Nigeria after the Nigerian – Biafra war in the early 1970s.  This means that, the formerly private owned primary and secondary schools were acquired from all the private individuals and organizations that originally started and owned the...

MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES (A CASE OF ANAMMCO) ANAMBRA MOTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY

ABSTRACT The main objective of the study that investigate the management  problems of public enterprise a case study of Anambra manufacturing company (Anammmco) the objective of any government is a stable growth and development of the country through industrialization, one of the avenues through which, their achieved is by the establishment of public enterprises. The Analysis made in chapter four forms an important part of the  discussion that follows after the data collected have been pre...

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF PRIVATIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIAN

1.1BACKGROUND  Privatization commercialization are issues of our time and it is to the credit of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) that now have this objective as a current economic policy. Together with rationalization of government parastatals and removal of bottlenecks, privatization is the last of four concrete policy measure of SAP yet to be implemented. Other three are:-The second-tier foreign exchange market (SFEM) which on July 2, 1981 was changed to Foreign Exchange Market (...

PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIAN ECONOMY (PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS)

1.0INTRODUCTION The need for privatization varies from country to country and certainly from the developed economics to the developing ones.  Although attempts have been made to classify the motives for privatization, they invariably boil down  to the economic or the political or both.Privatization could be seen as a necessity, which we are told is the matter of invention.  A lot of invention should, therefore, normally be expected provided of course, other requirements are met.Privatizati...

MANAGING RURAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INDUSTRILIZATION A CASE STUDY OF EZEAGU LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AREA)

ABSTRACT         This    research   work   scrutinized the  impact   of    managing  rural  development  through  industrialization.   Rural   development   management   is   very   importance as   for us attainment of the development objective   is   concerned,    particularly in   enhancing the organizational productivity.  In    order  to achieve   the   objectives,  the   rural   dwellers  must  be  willing to  offer  their  time  towards  the...

EFFECT OF WORK ENVIRONMENT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN ENUGU STATE CIVIL SERVICE. (A CASE STUDY OF MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND CULTURE ENUGU STATE)

ABSTRACT Working environment Matters a lot to employee. For this reason it is of a great importance to improve the working environment of the employee. Due to this serious research has been done to improve the attitude of Nigeria civil servants and it has been observed that environment force have handicapped the Nigerian employees to day in attempts to achieve high productivity in their various organization.However when working environment is improved the employees are motivated and producti...

PROMOTING PRODUCTIVITY IN CIVIL SERVICE (A CASS STUDY OF ENUGU STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION)

ABSTRACT This study is a research of the Enugu state civil service commission the purpose of the study includes. 1)To find out whether civil servant are actually performing below standard. 2)To find out whether productivity is really declining in the  civil service 3)To find out what the cause are in the civil service 4)To find out measures to be fake in order to arrest the situation While carrying out the research the duties collection method adopted was the questionnaire the statistical t...

THE IMPORTANCE OF EQUITABLE ALLOCATION OF REVENUE RESOURCES IN NIGERIA

PROPOSAL Proposal on the importance of Equitable Allocation of Revenue Resources in Nigeria. Equitable Allocation of Revenue are allocation given to air economy to reduce inequalities among them, as regard to the financial resources available in the country.The factors that should be considered to ensure rational allocation of revenue are population, size, wealth and level of development. The allocation of revenue based on these factors above will help the economy to attain economic growth a...

ROLE OF TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA. (A CASE STUDY OF ANAMBRA NORTH SENATORIAL ZONE)

ABSTRACT The colonial administration of the pre-independence era in Nigeria used traditional authorities on a large scale in governance. Ever since then, traditional authorities have found themselves confronted with providing complimentary leadership in their domain. Their relevance in the contemporary societies appears to be diminishing with the result that various tiers of government appear to perceive and use them in governance in different ways and levels. This study appraised the roles a...


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