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Civil Service as a government institution plays important part in insuring that government policies result in tangible services for the population. In fact, without the body of professional civil servants, national government cannot function effectively and efficiently. In Nigeria, the Federal Civil Service has been enmeshed in myriads of problems: weak governance structure, red-tapism, weak accountability, low professional standards, waste and corruption, poor productivity, and lack of control, redundancy and over-bloated staff structure. To suffer a result-oriented and modern civil service, consecutive governments in Nigeria have introduced reforms aimed at ameliorating the efficiency and effectiveness of the civil service. However, the service remains inefficient and suffers from obsolescence, lethargy and a lack of enthusiasm in carrying out government policies. This report contends that these reforms failed because there is a lack of democratic practices in the governance of civil service, and the government reform exercise did nothing to address it.



This research establishes the case for democratic centralism in order to solve the persistent deterioration in the quality of governance, bureaucratic bottleneck and problems of ineffectiveness, accountability and productivity currently plaguing Federal civil service in Nigeria. Such a case rests on democratizing the decision-making processes and administrative structure of the civil service. Having outlined how model of democratic centralism should be implemented in the context of ongoing Federal Civil Service reform, the paper concludes that reforming Nigerian Civil Service in line with the principle of democratic centralism will help to build institutional capability that will improve institutional structures and processes, enhance the ability of Nigerian public institutions to perform specific activities so as to achieve its goals in a sustainable way, and provide strong institutions that devoid of corruption.

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