Social Thinking

Trend s  of Public Policy  Implementation in Nigeria : A Criti que  of Federal Character Abstract Policies (public policies) are ind i spens a ble and in-expendable especially to the developing  countries such as Nigeria, this begs the question of how the plethora of policies that are daily dished out are effectively implemented. A close look at the Nigerian syndrome would reveal that policies over the years had been partially or totally abandoned right after their enactment owing to some factors such as the lack of political will, poverty etc therefore, an exegesis of these factors is paramount thus, this work. Secondary data were analyzed and the study observed that poverty and weak political will are among the many factors hampering the implementation of public policies in developing countries such as Nigeria. The study further recommends the inculcation of strong political will into   the Nigeria n political space . Keywords Policy, Public policy, Federal ch...

…expectedly at 2:45 a.m., the credit alert of 14k woke me up after the tedious eight days I spent writing the assignment (since I live off academic writing). With my bank (archetypal of every bank in Nigeria), you never know where the charges come from or what they are for so customarily we check the balance once the alerts hit. It was startling that my balance was -47.58 (meaning that I still owed 47 Naira plus on my account). My feelings could best be imagined knowing that my bank could never be owed. At first I thought my friend who sent me the money had joined the growing list of fraudsters in Nigeria. I once heard a story of how a man bought a car with a fake credit alert only in Nigeria.  On receiving a transaction-authenticating alert on my mobile banking application, I vindicated my friend. Like every Nigerian, I gave a sigh of “God forbid” when I saw the mammoth crowed in one of the banks at Bodija the previous day while I was in search of power to complete the said work s...