The Adoption and Experience of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) During Covid 19 Enviroment: Lessons for The Future (Published)
This study aims to investigate analyse the adoption of PPPs during COVID 19 and to examine the impact of COVID 19 on adoption of such PPPs.. Drawing on systematic review, the authors investigated the COVID 19 has had a great effect on the adoption of PPP projects globally. The collected data has been analysed using the themes and content analysis. The findings have findings revealed that COVID 19 has had a great effect on the adoption of PPP projects globally. It was concluded that the adoption of PPPs can be a basis for developing better infrastructure in the era of COVID 19. It was recommended that Governments all over the world need to always use PPPs to address certain economic issues caused by COVID 19 pandemic. The results have also indicated the while PPPs have been used in normal times they have a more important role in saving lives during ahrd times like the Covid 19 times.. The contribution from findings will provide productive insights to help governements in identifying how PPPs can be deployed and utilised to save lives and how they can be affected.
Keywords: Accountability, Infrastructure, public private partnerships
THE RULE OF LAW, DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA (Published)
The objective of this paper is to find out the extent democracy and the rule of law has influenced good governance in Nigeria. The Political Economy approach, based on the Marxian concept of the dialectical materialism of the society, is adopted as the framework of analysis. Secondary data, generated through documents reading, were used for the analysis. Our findings indicate that in principle, democracy and the rule of law are elaborately provided in Nigeria, but in practice, good governance still eludes the country. Corruption, poverty, ignorance, diseases, inflation, declining productivity, maladministration, dictatorship, ethnicity and other primordial factors, as well as prevalent social vices are the road mines to good governance in Nigeria. Equitable distribution of resources, provision of qualitative education, economic restructuring of the society, freedom of the press and political reforms, among other recommendations, are fundamental for the enthronement of functional democracy and the rule of law for good governance in Nigeria.
Keywords: Accountability, Democracy, Rule Of Law, Transparency And Good Governance
Public Administration and the Collapse of Probity And Good Governance in Nigeria: The Impact Of Political Superstructure. (Published)
Emerging from the vestiges of over one hundred years of imperial rule, the Nigerian public administration system has experienced significant transformation to secure a place of pride in the general discourse on governance. However, the stream of political developments that brought the system into sharp focus and relevance has been as challenging to the public service as they are instructive in intellectual reflections. For example, in the growing literature on the collapse of probity and good governance in Nigeria, the public service has been severely scored on account of its failure to provide the required institutional grounding for good governance. While not absorbing the political class of culpability for this failure, the general assessment of the leadership question in Nigeria has been heavily skewed against the bureaucracy. The paper seeks to deconstruct this notion and argues that the political superstructure is largely responsible for the governance failure, and that the public service under the suffocating grip of its political master has only managed to maintain its going concern within the context of political instability, policy inconsistency, and the lack of political accountability in the last fifty years of public administration. The analysis is predicated on the politics – administration dichotomy as its theoretical framework. This approach provides tremendous insight into the nature and character of interaction between the political class and the administrative class on the basis of which deductions are made and conclusion drawn. In the final analysis, two recommendations stand out among others; a call for legislative activism sufficient enough to institutionalise a culture of political and managerial accountability and a call for policy consistency sufficient enough to sustain and drive the current reforms of the public service to its logical ends
Keywords: Accountability, Administration, Governance, Politics, Public Service
The Rule of Law, Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria (Review Completed - Accepted)
The objective of this paper is to find out the extent democracy and the rule of law has influenced good governance in Nigeria. The Political Economy approach, based on the Marxian concept of the dialectical materialism of the society, is adopted as the framework of analysis. Secondary data, generated through documents reading, were used for the analysis. Our findings indicate that in principle, democracy and the rule of law are elaborately provided in Nigeria, but in practice, good governance still eludes the country. Corruption, poverty, ignorance, diseases, inflation, declining productivity, maladministration, dictatorship, ethnicity and other primordial factors, as well as prevalent social vices are the road mines to good governance in Nigeria. Equitable distribution of resources, provision of qualitative education, economic restructuring of the society, freedom of the press and political reforms, among other recommendations, are fundamental for the enthronement of functional democracy and the rule of law for good governance in Nigeria
Keywords: Accountability, Democracy, Rule Of Law, Transparency And Good Governance