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Leadership And Good Governance In Nigeria: Issues And Prospects For National Development
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1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
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objective of this study is to examine the effects of leadership on good
governance in Nigeria for national development. Thus, with a view to
identifying the issues, challenges, prospects, strategies etc associated
with leadership and governance in Nigeria.
The specific objectives are to:
a. Establish the relationship between leadership and good governance.
b. Determine the effects of leadership on good governance in Nigeria since 1999.
c. Establish the perceptions of political leadership since the return to democracy in 1999.
d. Establish the issues associated with leadership and good governance in Nigeria.
e. Whether political leadership provided good governance for national development.
f. Establish the prospects associated with leadership and good governance in Nigeria towards national development.
g. Establish the factors that affect the quality of leadership and good governance since independence.
h. Establish the expectations on political leadership and good governance for national development.
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Proffer strategies that can be adopted to ensure leadership facilitates
good governance for national development in Nigeria.
1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
The study attempts to make the following assumptions:
a. There is a strong nexus between leadership style and good governance.
b. That democracy engenders good governance.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The
importance of this study to Nigeria cannot be over-emphasized. It would
be significant for policy and academic purposes. It would aid political
elite and policy makers at federal, state and local government levels
on issues affecting leadership and good governance in the country. The
study would help in citizenship training of the Media, Civil Society
Organizations (CSOs), students and indeed the entire Nigerian populace.
It would be relevant to the academia as a useful reference material and a
catalyst that would stimulate further studies on the subject.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The
effects of political leadership on good governance for national
development have permitted national discourse since independence
especially between 1999 and 2010. The time frame was chosen to enable
the researcher examine the effects of leadership on governance in
Nigeria within democratic dispensation in the ongoing Fourth Republic.
However, reference was made to some recent events on Nigeria’s political
landscape that have bearing on the subject matter.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]1 The phenomenon of leadership and good governance has assumed greater
interest in Africa. With the return of democratic governance to Nigeria,
the study of the relationship between leadership and good governance
for national development has become an imperative. The study looks at
the challenges and prospects associated with leadership and good
governance in Nigeria within the first decade of the Fourth Republic.2.
The study discovered that political leadership has been ... Continue reading---
