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    CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA: AN EXAMINATION OF LOWER BENUE RIVER BASIN AUTHORITY (LBRBDA)
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2018-06-06) Itodo, Sylvanus Mohammed; Mohammed, Abdullahi,
    Nigeria's lack of appreciable development commensurate with its natural endowment in both human and material resources is less a reflection of wrong diagnosis of developmental issues than the fact that the country seldom achieves successful implementation of public policies and programmes. Developmental issues can be analyzed to death based on which policies and programmes are put in place but this will amount to nothing if those charged with the implementation lack the disposition to translate the fine and noble ideas into physical results that will impact positively on the standard and living conditions of the, people. This state of affair has provoked the concern of this paper to interrogate the perpetual lack of successful implementation ofpublic policies and progammes in Nigeria and the consequent lack of meaningful development in the country after 57years of political independence. The paper proffers practical suggestions as remedial measures to improve policy implementation by government. This is not only timely but reassuring because achieving successful implementation of development programmes is a pre-requisite for the country's progress and development, .especially the actualization of her dream to become one of the top twenty economies oft he world in 2020.
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    THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2019-07-07) Mohammed, Abdullahi,; Itodo, Sylvanus Mohammed
    This work is a library research that gathers materials from textbooks, news media such as newspapers, magazines, journal papers, radio and television news, internet and the personal experiences of the researcher, since he is an adult Nigerian and feels the impact of some of the problems or challenges. From the reviews, he agrees with the authors that Nigeria is experiencing perilous and turbulent times that seem to mean that our political leaders do not know what to do. One source identified the challenges as the economy, insecurity unemployment and corruption— four in number—and that they demand competence and political will to handle. Another source identified them to include insecurity, corruption which enhances mass poverty in the North and South of Nigeria, volatile monolithic economy, environmental degradation and faulty educational system. The researcher believes that the challenges facing Nigeria include monoculture economy, unstable power supply; corruption that breeds poor leadership, insecurity caused by Boko Haram and armed robbery, unemployment, environmental pollution in the Niger Delta region, neglect of agriculture andfaulty educational system. At the end of the work, some suggestions have been made as to how the challenges should be tamed such as attacking the base of corruption, provision ofpower, overhaul of the educational system, diversification of the economy, more emphasis on agriculture and provision of adequate infrastructure, among others.