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Corruption and Development in Nigeria
Despite being Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, with abundant natural resources, Nigeria still faces substantial development challenges. This book argues that corruption lies at the heart of many of the country’s problems.
Drawing on a range of different disciplinary perspectives, this volume explores the relationship between corruption and development, investigating the causes, contexts, and consequences of corruption, and the pathways for addressing it. As well as covering the wider background and theory surrounding corruption in the country, the book will investigate different sectors: the media, the judiciary, the health sector, industry, the criminal justice system, and of course politics and governance. The book concludes by considering attitudes and perceptions to corruption within Nigeria, current approaches to countering corruption, and future pathways to addressing the problem.
This book’s critical investigation of the links between corruption and development in Nigeria will be of interest to researchers of corruption, development and African Studies, as well as to policy makers, practitioners, and local stakeholders.
Introduction: Corruption and development in Nigeria
Ọláyínká Àkànle and David O. Nkpe
Part One: Theory and Background
1. Why study corruption in Nigeria? Perspectives on scale and impacts
Ọláyínká Àkànle, EwaJesu Opeyemi Okewumi, Irenitemi Abolade and Olaynka Ola-Lawson
2. Historical-contemporary currents in corruption and development in Nigeria
Obatunde Bright Adetola, Ọláyínká Àkànle, Gbenga Sunday Adejare and Olusegun Israel Olaniyan
3. Corruption as a national calamity in Nigeria: A variance based partial least square analysis
Ali Ado Siro and Mustapha Hashim Kurfi
4. Public corruption encounters in Nigeria, 2016–2019
Oludayo Tade
Part Two: Sectors and Case Studies
5. Rule of law? The breakdown of the social contract and the corruption of development in Nigeria
Kolawole E. Omomowo
6. Media and corruption
Ọláyínká Àkànle, O. A. Otomi, G. C. Nwanagu, Gbenga and Sunday Adejare
7. Corruption, violent crime and underdevelopment in the Niger Delta region
Chinedu Ernest Dinne and Rasheed Akanji Okunola
8. Governance, leadership and corruption
Olufunmilola Esther Akanle and Anyanna Orireosobua Augustine
9. Corruption and the criminal justice system
Ekwuore Monday Ushie and Akwaji, Fidelis Ngaji
10. Corruption and the development debacle in the Niger Delta region
Ekwuore Monday Ushie and John Thompson Okpa
Part Three: Tackling Corruption
11. Corruption dynamics and the intractability of anti-graft war
Emmanuel Eshiotse, John Thompson Okpa and Mary Iji Iru
12. Corruption and anti-corruption agencies
David O. Nkpe
13. Corruption and its consequences in Nigeria: The way forward
Joseph Olufemi Odunuga
14. Approaches to preventing and fighting corruption in Nigeria
Richard A. Aborisade
Conclusion
Ọláyínká Àkànle and David Olom Nkpe
Index
Biography
Ọláyínká Àkànle is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a research associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
David O. Nkpe, a doctoral candidate at the University of Ibadan is a Chief Superintendent of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Sociology from University of Jos and City, University of London, respectively.
