Managing Nigeria’s development through the public budget: Lessons from the foundations laid by Okotie-Eboh, 1958–1965
Africa's Public Service Delivery and Performance Review
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| Title | Managing Nigeria’s development through the public budget: Lessons from the foundations laid by Okotie-Eboh, 1958–1965 | |
| Creator | Ogunyemi, Adetunji | |
| Description | This article examines the essential issues in the economic development of Nigeria in the 1960s as shown in all the budget speeches presented to the parliament by her first indigenous Finance Minister, Festus Okotie-Eboh. The study highlights the Minister’s efforts to obtain parliamentary approval for the Appropriation Bills laid by his government before the Nigerian House of Representatives in Lagos. The purpose being to underscore the role of the individual in shaping the course of the development of any nation. Hence, the study identifies the fiscal policy orientation upon which the key programmes and projects reflected in such speeches were built. It also establishes the extent to which the projects were achieved. The study concludes that Chief Okotie-Eboh’s parliamentary speeches on Nigeria’s federal budget, though loaded with oversized literary niceties, were still, rather than depictive of a mere display of endless parliamentary filibustering, indeed, a veritable part of the sources of Nigeria’s public history. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2017-06-21 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/apsdpr.v5i1.148 | |
| Source | Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review; Vol 5, No 1 (2017); 9 pages 2310-2152 2310-2195 | |
| Language | eng | |
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