TABLE OF CONTENT
Acknowledgement Dedication Abstract
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
- Background of the study 1-4
- Good governance
- Security
- Human right
- Infrastructure
- Statement of the problem 4
- Research question 5
Reference 8
- Literature review 9
- Major factor of economic development 9-17
- The state of Nigeria economic development 17-22
- Privatization as a means of Nigerians economic development 24
- The present democratic regime and socio-Political development 25-26
- Nigerians economic Crisis; an economic development critique 26-28
Reference 29-30
CHAPTER THREE
- Economic development 31-34
- Development and environmental economics 34-35
- Characteristics of developed economy 35-37
- Distinction between developed and undeveloped economics 37-40
- Economic factors and non-economic factor 40-43
- The determinants of economic developments 43-44
Reference 45
CHAPTER FOUR
- Democratic Governance in Nigeria 46
- Leadership Challenges 46-48
- Corruption 48-49
- Human Rights 49
- Extra Judicial killings 49-50
- Civil strife 50
- Electoral Reforms 51-53
- The challenges of good Governance 54-56
Reference 56-58
CHAPTER FIVE
| 5.0 | Introduction | 59 |
| 5.1 | Summary` | 59 |
- Findings 59
- Recommendation 60
- Conclusion 61
Bibliography 62-65
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Nigeria is a unit of analysis in the consideration of good governance and socio-economic development. Before 1914 there was no geographical entity called Nigeria. Different cartographers and travelers qualified what is now known as Nigeria as guinea coast, Slave Coast, Niger empire, Niger, Sudan and Nigeria. The name Nigeria itself was derived from river Niger and was suggested by Flora Shaw who was the wife of Lord Lugard. This name appeared in the London time‟s issues of January 8, 1879. Other arguments arose later. The British government‟s desire to establish her hegemony on Nigeria took a gradual process. Lagos in consonance with Berlin conference of 1885. However, two major socio-economic factors were responsible for the amalgamation of Nigeria: the first being was that of administrative system based on indirect rule which had been successfully established in northern Nigeria. The British government attached much value to the system particularly as it provided an ideal and economic means of governing the masses with little disruption to their traditional socio-political institution. The second is that Nigeria had virtually no resources to rely on; it depended for survival on substantial grants-in-aid contribution from the British government and from southern Nigeria. It was in the process that Nigeria came into being through the administration of the British government.
Economic development is the development of economic wealth of countries, regions and communities for the well being of their inhabitants. From policy perspectives, economic development can be defined as efforts that seek to improve the economic well being and equality of life by creating and retaining jobs and Supporting or growing incomes and the tax base. Nigeria‟s democracy is truly at a crossroads, although there has been much progress in the year since the 1999 political transition, there are also deep seated problem of structure, institutional weakness performance that are jeopardizing the democratic experiment and the nation quest for national integration (Paul,2008) Nigeria‟s political class is fragmented, its institution largely feeble or dysfunctional, public goods are lacking, the vast majority of the people is
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AN ASSESSMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA (1999-2015)