In this book, published for the first time with Routledge in 2025 and including some previously unpublished papers, the renowned professor of public administration Ladipo Adamolekun argues powerfully that only a devolved Nigerian federation can become a well-performing state that is capable of achieving good development performance.
In this book, published for the first time with Routledge in 2025 and including some previously unpublished papers, the renowned professor of public administration Ladipo Adamolekun argues powerfully that only a devolved Nigerian federation can become a well-performing state that is capable of achieving good development performance. He discusses and ranks seven governance issues which include electoral legitimacy, rule of law, and civil liberties as well as development-oriented leadership, administrative competence, accountability and transparency (including anti-corruption). Professor Adamolekun has based his rankings on over six decades of the study and observation of the differing dimensions of the issues and suggests that the federal government and each of the subnational governments in a devolved federation should be responsible for sequencing the necessary reforms, taking into account the strengths and weaknesses of their respective governance structures and processes.
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Original Reviews of Reflections on Governance and Development in Nigeria:
Analyzing Nigerias federal system from a rich comparative experience and perspective, Prof. Adamolekun has had the advantage of using sharp and clear lens to mirror its governance and development trajectory and problems. He is one scholar whose prophetic academic voice should no longer be ignoredThe book is an embodiment of ideas conceived under a carefully crafted title that underscores the positive impact of good governance on development performance. Isaac N. Obasi, Vanguard
this book is an important contribution to knowledge on governance and development in Nigeria and Africa. It is highly recommended... In fact, it should be compulsory reading for all those who are or intend to go into the administration of political, economic, social, judicial or executive/administrative power in Nigeria and indeed in the African continent. Dele Oluwu
1.Introduction: Overview of Main Issues Part A: Selected Unpublished
Papers
2. The Political Fundamentals of Development
3. A Framework for
Understanding Governance Reforms and Development Performance
4. A
Transformation Agenda for Accelerating National Development
5. Civil Service
and Good Development Performance
6. Legislators and Good Governance: Two
Challenges Accountability and Corruption
7. The Challenge of Achieving Good
Governance: Some Lessons from Awo
8. Nigerias Overcentralised Federal System
and Poor Development Performance Part B: Selected Newspaper Essays 9i) The
Courts and Politics 9ii) The Courts and Politics: A Poisonous Relationship
10. What Home-Grown Democracy for Nigeria?
11. Governance and Development
An Overview
12. Nigerias Future: Devolve or Die
13. 21 Years of Civil Rule:
Governance Performance Scorecard
14. Conclusion: Path to Achieving Improved
Governance and Good Development Performance
Ladipo Adamolekun is a Professor of Public Administration and a former Dean of the Faculty of Administration at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria. For about two decades, he held senior appointments in the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He has written and published extensively on politics and public administration in Africa. He has won many honours and distinctions at home and abroad over the years, including the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) award, officially described as the "highest national prize for academic and intellectual attainment".
