CIVIL SERVICE REFORMS IN NIGERIAN AND CHALLENGES OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Beetseh, Kwaghga

Library Department

 Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi

e-mail: beetsekwaghga@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

This paper interrogates the civil service reforms in Nigeria and their implications for national development.  The paper which adopts structural-functionalism as its framework of analysis reveals that the civil service is the life-wire of development in any nation owing to its critical functions of policy advice and policy implementation among others.  We have discovered in this discourse that the Nigerian civil service which evolved from the colonial era has gone through several reforms but unfortunately the nation is still faced with monumental challenges of development.  Against this backdrop, the paper recommends among other thins the need for realistic and workable reforms that have human face as well as promoting sound polices on recruitment, training and retraining of civil servants for effective service delivery in Nigeria.