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Government in Nigeria Can Achieve Good Governance Through Good Management

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  • John Nkeobuna Nnah Ugoani

    (Department of Management Sciences College of Management and Social Sciences, Rhema University, Nigeria)

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Poor public management defined by corruption and lack of prudence in public life continues to hold Nigeria hostage and makes good governance difficult. Since the 1980s government has been using many methods including the processes of privatization and commercialization as means of re-engineering the public sector for total quality management, and to increase the share of the public sector’s contribution to the gross domestic product. The experiment never achieved the desired level of success partly due to lack of political will on the part of government to wedge a total war against corruption, and also partly because the public sector is a large scale administration that has many entry and revolving doors which government finds difficult to close. These limitations provide the incentives for widespread public corruption that is recognized as one of the greatest challenges of government in carrying out its mandate. 110 respondents participated in this study conducted through the exploratory research design. The participants provided useful data that were triangulated with data from secondary sources for the purpose of the study. To achieve the objective of the investigation, data were analyzed through statistical techniques and the result showed significant positive correlation between good governance and good management. It was recommended that appointments in the public sector should feature a combination of people from private and public sectors of the economy to enhance competence with the aim of reducing public sector corruption. Further study should examine the reasons behind rising budget deficits as a way of reducing cost of governance in Nigeria.

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  • John Nkeobuna Nnah Ugoani, 2020. "Government in Nigeria Can Achieve Good Governance Through Good Management," Business, Management and Economics Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, vol. 6(9), pages 115-126, 09-2020.
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