PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND NIGERIA'S DEVELOPMENT

AN INTRODUCTION.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, ACCORCING TO WIKIPEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA CAN BE BROADLY DESCRIBED AS THE DEVLOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND STUDY OF BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT POLICY. THIS IMPLIES THAT PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ENCOMPASSES ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLIMENTATIONS OF GOVERNMENT POLCIES AND DECISION. IT IS LINKED TO PURSUING THE PUBLIC GOOD BY ENHANCING CIVIL SOCIETY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.

EVALUATING THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE ABOVE BROAD EXPLANATIOON, WE CAN THEN PROPERY DESCRIBE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS THAT WHICH INVOLVES THE STUDY OF PUBLIC ENTITIES AND THEIR REALTIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH LARGER WORLD; HOW PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS ARE ORGANIZED AND MANAGED ; HOW PUBLIC POLICY STRUCTURES THE DESIGN OF GOVERNMRENT PROGRAMMS THAT WE RELY UPON AND HOW OUR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT CREATES AND CHANGES PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAMS TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF A NATION. PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION, AS WE CAN SEE INVOLVES ALL THAT GOES IN GOVERNMENT. IT MEANS THAT PUBLIC ADMINSTRATIO CAN AS WELL AS BE RERRED TO AS PUBLIC GOVERNANCE OR MANAGEMNT OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS.

WITH THIS, THE IDEA OF GOVRNMENT ITS MEANING ANF RELATIONMSH WITH PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION COMES TO MIND,. WHAT THEN IS GOVERNMENT? HOW DOES IT RELATES TO PIBLIC ADMINSTRATIO?

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBIC ADMINSTRATION AND GOVERNMENT

THR TERM 'GOVERNMENT' CAN PROPERLY BE EXPLAINED AND UNDERSTOOD IN THW WORDS OF P.N. CHIKENDU, IN HIS BOOK "NIGERIAN POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT". FOR HIM, THE IDEA OF GOVERNMENT EMANATES FROM THE FACT OF A DEFINITE GROUP OF PEOPLE LIVING TOGETHER AND INTERACXTING AMONG THEMSELVES IN ANEFFORT TO SATISFY THEIR RESPDTIVE NEEDS AND DESIRES ALL INORDER TO ATTAIN WHAT ARISTOTLE CALLS THE GOODLIFE.

HA ALSO HAS IT THAT GOVERNMENTOPERATES WITHIN THE AMBIT OD A STATE. A STATE IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SETTLE AND LIVE WITHIN A DEFINTE TERRITORY WITH DEFINITE FRONTIERS AND HAVING A FINAL AUTHORITHY OF A BODY DALLED GOVERNMENT. IT IS HERE THAT GOVERNMENT AQND PIBLIC ADMINISTRATION HAD A REMARKABLE LINK. PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION INTERS HAVING A CENTRAL BODY IN AN ORGANIZATION THGAT MANGES AND ADMINSTERS THE AFFAIRS OF THAT GROUP. THIS IS ALSO REFERRED TO AS GOVERNMENT. NOW, HOW DO WE APPLY THESE EXPOSITRIONS MADE ABOVETO NIGERIA AS AN EWNTITY, A NATION THAT HAS GOVERNMENT AND INVARIABLY PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION? HOW HAD THE PUBLIC GOVERNACE AND ADMINSTRATIONM HELPED OR CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA AS A NATION.

RELATING PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION TO NIGERINAN CONTEX

PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION IN THE NIGERIAN CONTEX IS ALL ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT, ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMNT OF POLICIES THAT AFFECTS NIGERIANS BY THE NIGERIAN ADMINSTRATORS. IT INVOVES THE ACTIVITES OF THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND HOW THESE AFFECT THE NIGERIANS AS A WHOLE. IT INTERS HOW THE PUBLIC POLICY, STUCTURES THE DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND HOW OUR STATES, CITIES AND TOWNS WORK WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN REALIZINF THEIR GOALS AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.

NIGERIA, SINCE ITS EXISTENCE HAS WITNESSED A LOTS OF PUBLIC ADDMINISTRARORS AND GOVERNMENTS. HOW HAVE THESE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS AND GOVERNORS HELPED OR CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGERIA.

THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS TO NIGERIAN DEVELOPMENT

NIGERIA AS ENTITY, WE MUST NOTE, IS AN ACCIDENT OF HISTIORY. THIS ENTITY WE NOW CALL NIGERIA IS COMPOSED OF VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS. THE VARIOUS ETHNIC NATIONALITIES THAT NOW CONSTITUTE NIGERIA LIVED SEPAERATE POLITICAL EXISTENCE. THAY HAD THIER SEPARATE GOVERNMWENTS AND WERE INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER. IF IT WAS NOT BECAUSE OF THE BRITISH COLONIALISTS THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER UNDER ONE POLITIACAL UMBRALLA, THAY WOULD HAVE REMAINED MINI-STATES OR DEVELOPED BETTER IN ANOTHER WAY.

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