POLICY FAILURE IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF NATIONAL POVERTY ERADICATION PROGRAMMES OF GOODLUCK JONATHAN/BUHARI'S ADMINISTRATION ENAKELE GODSWILL ALOIYE (original) (raw)
Various policies and programs to combat poverty had been wilfully invented by Nigeria's successive governments with the intent of salvaging the ceaseless concerns of unemployment, poverty and social economic imbalance. However, in some instances, the scheme is concomitantly tilted towards ameliorating the swiftness of disturbances that comes with being unemployed and poor among youth in most localities as well as states of the nation. This study examines Policy Failure in Nigeria; A study of Goodluck Jonathan/Buhari's Poverty Alleviation Programmes in Nigeria. The paper examined the impact of Poverty alleviation policies in Nigeria with particular reference to the programmes of Presidents Jonathan and Buhari's administration. The paper adopts the advocacy coalition theory as a framework for analysis and employs historical/descriptive methods with data collected through Independent research in relevant databases (journal articles, newspaper publications) and expert opinions and factor analysis was used in identifying the circumstances that characterizes the poverty alleviation programmes under study. The paper discusses the components of the poverty alleviation programmes and provides reasons for their failure. The paper recommends that policymakers always do a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats) analysis of policies at different points in time to determine their performances against public policy goals and objectives. Additional, the Nigerian government must look at policies from a world viewpoint, drawing guidance and tutelage from different sociopolitical systems and environments and working to improve them.
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