CORRUPT PRACTICES AND SERVICE DELIVERY OF STAFF IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES
Keywords:
Corrupt practices, Service delivery, Staff, Nigerian UniversitiesAbstract
The persistent rise in cases of corrupt practices has given meaningful Nigerians a cause for deep concern in recent times. This presents itself among several factors that pose as challenges to service delivery of staff in education system including the Nigerian universities. This study examines how corrupt practices including financial mismanagement, nepotism, academic fraud and weak leadership undermine efficiency. The study highlights the mechanisms through which corrupt practices manifest and its impacts on service delivery. The study particularly discussed the nature of corrupt practices, causes of corrupt practices in Nigerian universities, impacts of corrupt practices and ways of eradicating corrupt practices in Nigerian universities. The findings of the study reveals that corrupt practices impede greatly on academic quality, institutional credibility and service delivery of staff in Nigerian universities. It therefore concluded that corrupt practices can be eradicated by strengthening oversight including regular audit system to ensure transparency and accountability, introduction of ICT platforms, ensuring equitable and fair recruitment and promotion of staff, ensuring ethical value education, enactment and strengthening of anti-corruption laws and enforcement of the justice system among others.
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