Reforms, Governance and Development in Nigeria by Tunji Olaopa

Description

This volume combines conceptual and empirical methodology to connect the administrative dots
between the dynamics of democratic governance and the imperatives of development in Nigeria.
The optimism underlying this book derives from the author’s reflection on the connection
between democratic governance, the civil service in Nigeria and the critical import of reform as
the sine qua non for achieving not only a paradigm shift in Nigeria’s productivity profile, but also as
the means through which democracy can become a truly liberating ideology for Nigerians. The
volume explores a deep historical strategy as an administrative method by which to understand
why the capability readiness of the Nigeria civil service system has been compromised and how a
deep political commitment to the transformation of the ministries, departments and agencies
(MDAs) can transform Nigeria in terms of infrastructural and human capital development.

Tunji Olaopa, PhD, a retired Federal permanent secretary in Nigeria, is a Fellow of the Institute of
Management Consultants of Nigeria and recipient of the 2015 Nigerian National Productivity Order
of Merit Award. He is now the Executive Vice Chairman of the Ibadan School of Government and
Public Policy (ISGPP), Nigeria. He combines an uncommon theoretical and practical insights into
the reform dynamics of the Nigerian and African public service that derives from an over twenty
seven years of reform crusade concerning the operational workability of democratic governance
and the imperative role and responsibility of the civil service. Tunji Olaopa is the author of over a dozen other books including Public Administration & Civil Service Reforms in Nigeria (2012); Innovation and Best Practices in Public Sector Reforms: Ideas, Strategies & Conditions (2012); Public Service Reforms in Africa (2010); Managing Complex Reforms: A Public Sector Perspective (2011); The Joy of Learning (2009); and The Labour of Our Heroes (2016).

ISBN: 978-1-943533-24-4 Ι Published 2017 Ι Pan-African University Press