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The recent Nigerian development plan is the perspective plan called the National Vision 20:2020 which is designed as the most dependable tool for national growth and advancement of Nigeria. A country's ability to rapidly grow, largely depends on the development plan it has adopted; the strategy for implementing the development plan; and the timely evaluation of the strategy for re-strategizing for re-implementation process and sustainable impactful return from the set objectives in the interest of the citizens of the country. Nigeria for the past 67 years has formulated different types of plan to date. Some of the plans include fixed term plan, medium term plan, rolling plan, policy plan, and perspective plan. Considering the series of plans that have been implemented and the one currently running, Nigeria still faces a problem of steering the attainment of the set forecast and objectives of the development plan in different states in Nigeria. This paper adopts secondary sources of information to discuss the following: The Nigeria development plan in the past, major limitations of the past developmental plan, today's strategic development plan, strategic action for achieving strategic thinking; and key approaches to achieve the best results from strategic thinking.
National Development Planning in Nigeria: An Endless Search for Appropriate Development Strategy
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Strategies for Achieving Sustainable Development in Nigeria: The Nexus
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2018
The quest for sustainable development is not feasible without alleviating poverty drastically, empowering the youths, encouraging entrepreneurship education for effective self-reliance and empowerment. This research banks on the strategies for achieving sustainable development in Nigeria. The strategies enumerated include but not limited to the following factors: poverty alleviation, youth empowerment, entrepreneurship education and effective leadership. The study adopted a conceptual approach in an attempt to x-ray the various strategies for achieving sustainable development in Nigeria. Materials were generated via internet, textbooks and other documents relevant to the study. The findings based on the literature reviewed indicated that sustainable development is achievable only when social, economic, political and environmental sustainability elements in Nigeria are stable, viable and equitable. The study also recommended that the federal, state and local government should ensure that funds allotted to them are properly disbursed to the concerned groups. The policy implication is that the Commitment will ensure adequate provision of social services that are beneficial to the poor masses; fostering growth, and the provision of an enabling environment to boast businesses in different dimensions.
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international journal of academic research in business and social sciences, 2018
Abstract The quest for sustainable development is not feasible without alleviating poverty drastically, empowering the youths, encouraging entrepreneurship education for effective self-reliance and empowerment. This research banks on the strategies for achieving sustainable development in Nigeria. The strategies enumerated include but not limited to the following factors: poverty alleviation, youth empowerment, entrepreneurship education and effective leadership. The study adopted a conceptual approach in an attempt to x-ray the various strategies for achieving sustainable development in Nigeria. Materials were generated via internet, textbooks and other documents relevant to the study. The findings based on the literature reviewed indicated that sustainable development is achievable only when social, economic, political and environmental sustainability elements in Nigeria are stable, viable and equitable. The study also recommended that the federal, state and local government should ensure that funds allotted to them are properly disbursed to the concerned groups. The policy implication is that the Commitment will ensure adequate provision of social services that are beneficial to the poor masses; fostering growth, and the provision of an enabling environment to boast businesses in different dimensions.
Development in Nigeria: a political and economic challenge
Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, 2000
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This research paper examines the nexus between national development planning and sustainable development in Nigeria from 1962-2017. The aim of the study is to x-ray the factors militating against successive implementation of several development plans in Nigeria over the years under review. To obtain the data for the study, secondary data analysis design method was employed. From the data collected and analysed, the following findings were made: (a) weak institutions and governance system; (b) dearth of reliable statistics; (c) gaps between policy formulation and implementation; (d) inconsistency in plans formulations and implementations; (e) unstable governments and polity; (f) over ambitious nature of most plans; (g) financial corruption and other related offences; (h) poor project evaluation and monitoring; and inadequate skilled but disciplined personnel; these collectively inhibited national development planning and sustainable development in the country. In conclusion, we recommend that in addition to other solutions proffered, significant attention must be given to the option of incremental policy and its implementation strategy as evidences from the US and Europe, as contained in empirical literature show positive results. The idea of development planning enjoys considerable currency among virtually all sovereign nations of the world. It is a widely held tradition among national policymakers and development planners to roll out development plans in order to direct the socioeconomic activities of states towards the desired end. Nigeria, therefore, is not an exception in this regard. However, the history of development planning in Nigeria shows that the process dated back to the era of colonial rule; consequently, between 1946 and 1955 a Ten Year Development and Welfare Plan was rolled out by the colonial administrators so as to put the colonial Nigeria on the part of development. This plan was considered the first ever attempt by the colonial authority to chart a comprehensive path to the prosperity of Nigeria and its citizenry. The plan was intended to meet the colonial welfare and development needs; it was estimated to cost $184 million (Akoche & Oono, 2007, p. 74). As argued by the authors of the 1962-68 national development plans, the colonial plan was not a plan in the true sense of the word… but a series of projects which has not been coordinated or related to any overall economic target (Library of Congress, n.d; FRN, 1960). Between 1951 and 1960 there were policy revisions as the plans were reformulated due to
Prospects for Achieving Sustainable Development Through the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria
European Journal of Sustainable Development, 2014
In recent time, the concept of sustainable development cannot be overemphasized. Since the early 1980s, the term 'sustainable development' has been used widely and indiscriminately. The term began to gain popularity, when it became increasingly fashionable to use it as a way of responding to global environmental concerns, biophysical issues, fairness, equity and distribution. With this in mind, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were put up in recent times to address and include the issue of sustainability in development. In essence, this study is carried out with a view to enhance the understanding about the analytical content of sustainable development as well as sensitizing the Nigerian economy to key into the current wave of sustaining the global economy. In the light of some of the environmental as well as socioeconomic challenges permeating the Nigerian economy, it is therefore required that the Nigerian government concentrates on key areas that can help boost and sustain its developmental objectives. Hence, this paper helps to understand the concept and need for sustainable development. Besides, key developmental areas that require sustainability in Nigeria are addressed.
NIGERIA'S DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (II)
Over the years, the quest to better the lots of Nigerians have been problematique, owing to the fact that the ability to bridge the gap between our now and the future rests on a well designed development plan designed by the government. Obviously, there are good policy documents in Nigeria, but the implementation has always been contentious. As a country, Nigeria is replete with issues that call for development planning or else the future will remain bleak and uncertain as it has always appeared. As students and future development planners we need to ask ourselves; what has been happening to unemployment, illiteracy, environmental degradation, security challenges like Boko Haram, Niger Delta Avengers, killer-herdsmen, uncontrolled population growth, poor agricultural policies, poor infrastructural development, poor industrial policies and poor economic policies birthing low Gross National Product (GNP), Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and low Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) of our local currency. Most of the problems we encounter today are the results of our inability to plan. The experience of the oil boom in the 1970s and the 1980s introduced the first set of 'squandermanias’ and corrupt leaders whose destructive impacts have lasted till date. They never planned for the future of the unborn Nigerians and that is why we are still tagged an underdeveloped nation.