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ABSTRACT Federal character was adopted in Nigeria to ensure that no group or section suffers imbalance or marginalization of any kind. However, it implementation had been fraught with criticism by scholars and public servants who see it as an instrument of favouring some sections against others. It had been linked to the high level of administrative inefficiency experienced by the civil service system in spite of myriad of reforms over ...

Abstract The Nigerian fourth republic poses the problem of adjustment for the higher cadre of the country’s civil service. Civil service under the prolonged military regime had for the best part, combined political and bureaucratic roles. The return to democratic administration in 1999 implied the shedding of the role of policy articulation. The presidential democracy also imposes additional context for political restructuring by the civil service. This paper examines some ...