ARTICLE
TITLE

E-GOVERNMENT AND BUREAUCRATIC CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

SUMMARY

This paper explored the successes and challenges of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) adoption in the combat against bureaucratic corruption in the Nigerian public service. This study adopted a qualitative approach via in-depth interviews for data collection and thematic analysis. Interviews were conducted within purposively sampled public officials with over ten years of experience in the public service. Two major themes were identified; successes and challenges encountered in the fight against bureaucratic corruption with the use of ICT. It is discovered in this paper that ICT has played a significant role in the combat against bureaucratic corruption by increasing the revenue of the government through the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and Treasury Single Account (TSA) systems. However, challenges faced in this regard can be attributed to infrastructural gap, shortage of ICT skilled personnel and resistance by the public officials. It is therefore recommended that for the little success to be sustainable, those challenges must be mitigated.

 Articles related

Letícia Cunha de Andrade Oliveira,Adriana Schor    

O Programa Mais Alimentos Internacional combina a convencional cooperação técnica em agricultura com uma linha de crédito direcionada a pequenos agricultores moçambicanos para aquisição de maquinário brasileiro para o mercado agrícola. O objeti... see more


Ilmi Usrotin Choiriyah    

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis tahapan penerapan, prosedur, serta kendala dalam penerapan e-government melalui aplikasi M-Bonk di Kabupaten Sidoarjo. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis pen... see more


Istianah Ramadani    

Indonesia is a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, with Java having   the biggest number of Muslim scholars (ulamas), in Indonesia. Nonetheless, it is unfortunate that participation of Indonesian ulamas in international da’... see more


Jose Edgardo Campos†,Benjamina Randrianarivelo,Kay Winning    

The international development community has been grappling with how to overcome challenges in the implementation of development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical models and approaches that can assist in delivering on program object... see more


Richard Allen    

Matt Andrews has written a timely and important book that crystallizes thinking he and others have been developing over several years, and is underpinned by rigorous theoretical and empirical analysis. It is to be hoped that the lessons of the book will ... see more