IDEAL INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

The issue of enhancing Nigeria’s public service performance has been a major concern to policy makers and researchers. This is because despite all measures and reforms put in place to arrest the trend, it seems, it has defied all approaches towards tackling the problem of inefficiency, and service delivery has remained poor. This paper discusses the challenges facing Nigeria’s public service towards effective service delivery and the way forward. The paper adopted content analysis as a method of data collection and analysis. It finds among others, that corruption, ethnicism and poor remuneration are factors that inhibit effective performance in the Nigeria public service and suggests options for effective and efficient service-oriented public service. The challenges were viewed in two perspectives, external and internal with indịvidual peculiarities. It is the believe, that we create an institution which promote an ideal working environment that captures a more collective interest and speak of collective vision with the picture in mind of today’s issues with focus on torn arrows challenge. A glance at Nigerian workers shows motivational problems which is traceable to the variety of circumstances as noticed in the various environments. These challenges can be addressed by both management and government to introduce useful, lasting measure and practices to stir the sea of management to meet its "big picture"

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