Let me illustrate with the Nigerian public service. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, the Nigerian public service system had been afflicted by a bureau-pathological protocol defined by collusion between what we all know as the “Nigerian factor” and some damaging systemic debilities. The Udoji Report was essentially neglected, and the public service system has remained mired in a dysfunctional state that could only produce infrastructural deficits. The bureaucratic model of the Nigerian public service has therefore turned it into a great tideline that is managed through damage control. And the question is simple: how does the Nigerian public service work in the new administrative normal and under the omnipresent threat of the coronavirus?

Source: Punch August 08, 2020 23:15 UTC