200%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">In spite of the conscious steps taken by successive governments in Nigeria to combat power shortages and outages over the years, the problem of inadequate power supply in the country perpetuates. This study, therefore, attempted to assess the various policies initiated by the Nigerian government to improve on the provision of electricity in the country over the years. Data for...
200%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi">This paper examines the history of the Nigerian electricity market; the National Electric Power Policy of 2001 and its objectives; the Electricity Power Sector Reform Act of 2005; the measures taken to implement the objectives of NEPP 2001; the outcomes of these measures; the challenges impeding against the full actualisation of the objectives. It also considers the aim, imple...
Abstract:This study examines the management of disengagement and accrued benefits in the public sector of Nigeria, with specific focus on the Federal Civil Service. In doing this, certain objectives which the study aims to achieve were itemized and an assumption is made. Data were collected through from secondary sources and analysed using content analysis. Some literatures were reviewed, and both the contributory and non-contributory schools of thought on pension were used to explain the exi...
The main thrust of the social contract theory is that the government exists at the behest of the citizens to protect, and to promote the well-being of, the people. This study examines the relevance of the social contract theory to the Nigerian system of government. The term “social contract theory” is defined; the views of the trio of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the social contract theory are presented; the relevance of the social contract theory to the current ...
The study of organisation is incomplete without the study of the human component of the organisation. It is the interest in the human aspect of organisation that has led to the study of the means and modes of interaction among the employees in, or the workforce of, an organisation as well as the ways in which these interactions affect the organisation as a whole, in its quest for goal-attainment. In other words, the interest in ascertaining the role of human relations in organisations brought...
