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mainstream economic activities- the provision of goods and services at commercial rates- to the
private sector, while retaining to itself responsibility for those goods and services where the
economic incentives are not adequate for the private sector to provide them at the quantity,
quality and price considered acceptable to or affordable by the average Nigerian.
This apparent economic stance of government was what inspired the National Economic
Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) document and its codicils: the State
Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (SEEDS), as well as the local government
equivalent (LEEDS). The NEEDS vision is based on the Constitution; the Kuru Declaration;
previous initiatives, such as Vision 2010; and the extensive consultation and participation all
over Nigeria that was part of the NEEDS process. The programme‘s core values depicts the
Vision 2010 report, which acknowledged honesty and accountability, cooperation, industry,
discipline, self-confidence, and moral rectitude.These documents have the following main goals:
wealth creation, employment generation, poverty reduction and value re-orientation (NEEDS
Document; 2004). The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) also feature significantly in the
country's transformation and growth initiatives. MDGs were unanimously adopted by the
member states of the United Nations in September 2000 as guiding principles to be adopted in
the development of individual nations. As member state of the United Nations, Nigeria adopted
the MDGs eight point agenda which includes: the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger,
achievement of universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering
women, reduction of child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria
and other pandemic diseases, environmental sustainability and the development of global
partnership for development (UNDP, 2003, 2010). The emergence of SERVICOM (Service
Compact Agreement with all Nigerians) introduced in 2004 by Obasanjo‘s regime which results
from an empirical study conducted by Wendy Thomas and his group in 2004, was meant to
revamp the dwindling nature of the public agencies and service delivery (Thomson, 2004).
Despite great natural wealth, the achievement of these laudable goals has become a mirage, and
Nigeria remains poor and socially underdevelopment. If present trend subsists, the country is
unlikely to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Poverty and Inequality, Weak and
Inappropriate Public Sector have been the bane of Nigeria‘s socio- economic progress. Rather
than focusing on delivering essential public services, successive governments in Nigeria, have
assumed control of major sources of national income. Consequently, corruption thrived in public
service and has become entrenched in society (CBN, 2003; Abani et al, 2005; Ibrahim and
Igbuzor, 2009).
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