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    AGRICULTURAL INTERVENTION POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT ■ OF NIGERIAN RURAL AREA: A STUDY OF EDO STATE
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2020-12-03) Umar, Elems Mahmoud; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ogwuzebe; Bege, Yahaya Ahmed
    The wealth which built modern Nigeria whether in the era of dominance of agricultural commodities, or petroleum, was derived from the rural areas. Given the relative importance of rural areas in Nigeria, as the major economic base, this study examines theof agricultural intervention policies/programmes on rural development in Edo State. The study adoptedmixed method using questionnaire andoral interviews. The data were analyzed using simple percentage statistical tools. Thefinding reveals that the exclusion of the rural farmers from participating in the agricultural intervention programmes is among other factors that contributed to the failure of the policy/programmes vis-a-vis underdevelopment of rural areas. Consequently, the study recommended that Government should leapfrog rural development philosophy from the present abyss to a front burner position, by constitutionalizing an extra-ministerial agency, such as the National Population Commission and Federal Civil Service Commission, among others, with specific responsibility of rural development in Nigeria.
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    Domesticity and Implementation of Affirmative Policy at the Local Government Tier in Nigeria
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2020-06-06) Umar, Elems Mahmoud; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ogwuzebe; Bege, Yahaya Ahmed
    The objective of this study is to enquire into the nature and causes of the observed implementation failure of Affirmative Policy at the local government tier in Nigeria, given the importance of the policy in gender balancing. Goaded by the persistent unequal underemployment in labour market and politics, ascribable to socio-cultural prejudices, women embarked on various programmes aimed at redressing the anti-gender disequilibrium, through Women’s Charter of Demand or Affirmative Action. The resultant policy: Gender Policy 2006, enunciated by the Federal Government of Nigeria, was therefore aimed at mainstreaming women into public sector establishments by reserving, at least 35per cent of all available offices for women. Overseas, in Canada, China, Malaysia, United Kingdom, USA, et cetera, Affirmative Programmes had been initiated for the realization of women’s equality. In the study, survey method was adopted where 100 local government councils were purposively selected from the 6 geopolitical zones of Nigeria; and a questionnaire administered to gather the required data; analysed using percentage statistical tool, as is widely applicable in researches in Social and Management Sciences. Oral interviews were also held with some council chairpersons, to clarify ambiguities. The major findings of this study included councils’ pervasive unawareness, or ignorance of the existence and operation of the Affirmative Policy; and unwillingness to implement the policy, if compliance was optional, due to conservatism. It was thus recommended that, among others, the Federal Government of Nigeria should establish and institutionalize a mechanism for educating local government councils on new policies. Furthermore, legislative sanction against defaulting council managements for nonimplementation of Affirmative Policy should be promulgated, to compel attitudinal change, as espoused by Modernization Theory, adopted in this study.
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    EXPECTANCY AND DIALECTICS OF WANING PUBLIC SERVICE ETHICS IN KOKONA LOCAL GOVERNMENT,NIGERIA
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2020-12-09) Umar, Elems Mahmoud; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ogwuzebe; Bege, Yahaya Ahmed
    Public organizations and members are required to be guided by established ethics in the discharge of their official responsibilities, to ensure credible service delivery to the citizens. The objective of this study is to examine the extent of observance of established public service ethics by employees of Kokona Local Government Council, Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The study adopts mixed method with asample of 282 employees drawn from the total staff strength of 352. The study used purposive technique, because of the homogeneity and relatively small size of the target population; while a questionnaire was employed in data collection, in the primary survey research design. Oral interviews were also conducted with respondents, to clarify ambiguities. Vroom (1964)'s Expectancy Theory was adopted in the theoretical framework, in view of the Theory's potency in providing insight into the relationship between employees'effort and the outcome of the effort, in the form of reward. Data were analyzed with simple percentage tools, as is widely applicable in Management and Social Science researches. Salient among the findings were that Kokona Council employees were aware of the service ethical codes; but they were however largely deficient in fully observing the code, due to the deplorable service conditions, including poor remunerations and incentives. Consequently, if was recommended, among others, that Council should improve the service conditions of employees; diversity the revenue base, to support the anticipated higher expenditure profile; and embark on ethical re-orientation of the staff, to regularize the psyche.
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    RETHINKING THE ‘COMPLICITY’ OF GOVERNMENT IN DECLINING ETHICS AMONG KOKONA LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2020-12-09) Umar, Elems Mahmoud; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ogwuzebe; Bege, Yahaya Ahmed
    Public organisations and members are required to be guided by established ethics in the discharge of their official responsibilities, to ensure credible service delivery to the citizens. The objective of this study is to examine the extent of observance of established public service ethics by employees of Kokona Local Government Council, Nasaram State, Nigeria, The central research questions were: whether employees fully observed the ethics; and the reasons for default, if any. A sample of 282 employees was drawn from the total staff strength of 352 (2019), with purposive technique, because of the homogeneity and relatively small size of the target population; while a questionnaire was employed in data collection, in the primary survey research design. Oral interviews were also conducted with respondents, to clarify ambiguities. Vroom (1964)’s Expectancy Theory was adopted in the theoretical framework, in view of the Theory’s potency in providing insight into the relationship between employees' effort and the outcome of the effort, in the form of reward. Data were analysed with simple percentage tools, as is widely applicable in Management and Social Science researches. Salieni among the findings were that Kokona Council employees were aware of the service ethical codes; but they were however largely deficient in fully observing the code, due to the deplorable service conditions, including poor remunerations and incentives Consequently, it was recommended, among others, that Council should improve th service conditions of employees; diversity the revenue base, to support the anticipated higher expenditure profile; and embark on ethical re-orientation of the staff, to regularize the psyche.
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    Women’s Affirmative Policy Implementation in Kokona Local Government Area, Nasarawa Slate, Nigeria
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2019-07-03) Umar, Elems Mahmoud; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ogwuzebe; Bege, Yahaya Ahmed
    The metamorphosis of the traditional child-bearing role of women during the medieval era to one of corporate, administrative and political guru in contemporaiy era has been phenomenal. In response to modernism, and the resentment by women against unfavourable gender discrimination, many countries of the world: USA (1961), Malaysia (1970), Sri Lanka (1981), Taiwan (2004) and UK (2010), etc, have adopted various policies aimed at increasing women’s participation in public and private sectors, by closing the inherent systemic gender-discriminatoty gaps. In Nigeria, similar agitations for capacitating women have been mounted through Women’s Affirmative Charter of Demand, which received Federal Government’s impetus through the National Gender Policy in 2006, with practical provision to reserve at least 35 per cent of available public offices for women in order to lay the foundation for mainstreaming women into higher public participation. Notwithstanding, the imperative of Affirmative Policy in promoting the role of women in national development in Nigeria, it had been alleged by analysts that Policy implementation remained shambolic across the various tiers of government, with progressive deficit at the munical level. The objective of this study is to examine the status of Affirmative Policy implementation in Kokona Local Governmnet. Given that Affirmative Policy is intandem with contemporaiy global adjustments, this study is principally underpinned by modernization theory>. * Data on the discrepancies between the actual and expected female employmeijtRevels in Kokona Local Government during the study period 2010-2019 was analysed using Chi-square statistical method. Evidence from the findings show a Women’s Affirmative Policy Implementation in Kokona Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, Nigeria discrepancy between the actual and expected levels of women employment during the period. Consequently, it *was recommended that, among others, implementation of Affirmative' Policy should be constitutionalized, to compel compliance in Nigeria.