With barely four years to the expiration of the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Nigeria has done very badly in achieving the MDGs even with the introduction of the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategies (NEEDS) at the federal, state and local government...

About two years there was a general election in Nigeria which was adjudged nationally and internationally as being fair and credible and in which Goodluck Jonathan was elected as President to pilot the affair of this country for the next four years. Although there were issues of national...

The civil service is the engine room of modern government. It comprises an assemblage of career officials, recruited in a civil capacity to serve the citizenry. By their training, they are equipped to champion the course of development by faithful implementation and evaluation of government...

The electoral process is an ideal and integral part of the democratic process, whether in developed or developing nation. A mal-functioning electoral system inadvertently produces maladministration or governance. In most developing countries, crisis of governance is usually the major problem...

The main thrust of this paper is to examine the role of collective bargaining in the management of the industrial conflicts that took place between 2007 and 2011 in Taraba state public service. The study adopted the primary and secondary sources of data. Simple descriptive analysis and...

Performance appraisal is a system whereby workers’ contributions to organizational objectives are accessed either quarterly or annually. This performance appraisal exercise has been grossly abused in many organizations, so competent and highly skilled workers have been frustrated out of many...

Nigeria’s fiscal relations have been characterized by bias, distrust and contention in the setting of principles or formula for revenue sharing between and among the various units of governments. The consequence of this misnomer is the habitual conflicting pattern of relations it has brought...

Sustaining democratic governance is a philosophy hinged largely on the functionality of the institutions of governance in line with democratic process and norms. The study established that virile democratic system is an illusion when a chunk of citizens are less concerned and disinterested in...

The 1999 Nigerian Constitution recognizes the local governments as the third tier of government with assigned responsibilities. In order to be able to discharge these responsibilities, the same 1999 Constitution also grants allocations from the federation account to the local governments on...

The academic staff of public universities in Nigeria went on six months strike in 2013 over federal government’s non-adherence and implementation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement. The industrial conflict between ASUU and the FGN can be understood as having the features of Nigerian government’s...