Civil Service and Cost of Governance in Nigeria

Innocent, Okechukwu; Andrew, Ven. Ogbochie

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“…He described the parastatals as giant drain pipes through which the country's scarce resources pour away in thick floods. He sees the parastatals as "centres of inefficiency, corruption and duplication of mandates and functions of other government organs" (Eme and Ven, 2013). This egregious numbers of MDAs which leads to increasing cost of governance need to be reversed to safeguard not only the present financial health of Nigeria but to preserve its posterity.…”

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Nigeria’s Expensive Politics and Democracy: The Bane of Good Governance

Rabba

Abdulkadir

2022

Int J Res Rev

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The performance of Nigeria’s democracy coupled with its styled politics and governance has raised concern over its sustainability and survivability. One area where the democratic system in Nigeria has remained shamelessly scandalous is in the area of the expensive cost of managing the democratic structures of the state and the people that run them. The view being implied in this article is that Nigeria’s style of democracy with its expensive and corrupt tendencies is frustrating and inhibiting good governance. The extent of Nigeria’s expensive governance and politics is manifested in wasteful spending on personnel cost of political office holders such as Ministers, commissioners, special advisers and other executive and legislative aides who in most cases get paid without performing justifiable functions and responsibilities. Similarly, security votes which are appropriated and used by federal and state governments discretionarily have become conduit pipes for draining our national wealth. The suffocating impact of the high cost of governance on our national life has made it to assume a national emergency dimension. This paper therefore emphasises the need for government across all strata to reduce the cost of politics and governance, block all revenue leakages and channel the country’s wealth and resources to productive ventures so as to entrench good governance and set the country on the path of development. The paper recommends the discontinuation of appointing the ministers of state, the scrapping of security votes and the adoption of a unicameral legislature with a part-time arrangement among others as strategies for reducing the cost of governance. Keywords: politics, democracy, expensive, good governance, cost

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Section: Expensive Cost Of Governance: the Bane Of Good Governancementioning

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Nigeria’s Expensive Politics and Democracy: The Bane of Good Governance

Rabba

Abdulkadir

2022

Int J Res Rev

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“…Sections 169,171,206,208,and 318 and Section 10 of the "Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution expressly provided for the establishment of the Civil Service/Public Service of Nigeria. These aforementioned sections of Nigeria's constitution recognise the public service of the federation, which includes the local government council services (Innocent and Andrew, 2013).…”

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Decentralisation and Civil Service Efficiency in Nigeria

Biola Muhibat

2022

KIJHUS

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Viewing civil service as a supporting strategy for decentralising government operations for quality service and greater accountability, this study analysed the relationship between decentralisation and the effective performance of civil service in Nigeria. However, the study obtained information from secondary data which include; official documents and official websites of governmental institutions in Nigeria, academic journals, and Newspapers. The study revealed that decentralisation policy has not translated to civil service efficiency in terms of quality service delivery and greater accountability. The study further revealed that decentralising administrative responsibilities to lower governmental levels should be encouraged with less political interference. Therefore, proper accountability needs to be integrated into all aspects of the Nigerian civil service to provide efficient services to the citizens. The study concludes that unless the government strengthens the enforcement phases of accountability, the objective of decentralisation in Nigeria may not be fully actualised.

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Civil Service and Cost of Governance in Nigeria

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Nigeria’s Expensive Politics and Democracy: The Bane of Good Governance

Nigeria’s Expensive Politics and Democracy: The Bane of Good Governance

Decentralisation and Civil Service Efficiency in Nigeria

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