Restructuring and Sustainable Development Programmes in Nigeria: Implications for Macro Social Work Practice.

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dc.contributor.authorVeta, Oghenechoja Dennis
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-10T11:46:07Z
dc.date.available2026-02-10T11:46:07Z
dc.date.issued2022-12
dc.description.abstractThis paper examined restructuring and sustainable development programmes in Nigeria and their implications for macro social work practice. The study relied on secondary data which were collected from journals, textbooks, newspapers, and internet materials. The paper revealed that poverty, increased manipulation of religion and ethnicity, inability to withstand election defeat, dissatisfaction with leadership quality, escalation of insecurities, conflicts over revenue allocation or resource control, armed banditry, bitter politics of ethno-religious and regional identities, ethnoreligious intolerances, herdsmen-farmers conflicts, socio-economic and infrastructural deteriorations, and corruption amongst others as the reasons forrestructuring of Nigeria. The factors militating against the restructuring of Nigeria include elite interest, fear of domination, political idiosyncrasy, military incursion, corruption, fear of suppression, nature of the existing structure, ethno-regional rivalry, leadership problem, constitutional issues, weak institution, and issues of federal character and its principles. The paper also discussed restructuring Nigeria to attain sustainable development and the implications for macro social work practice. The paper recommends, that there is a need for a national conference legally backed to draft a working constitution that would create a true federal system where the federating units have fiscal autonomous, and responsive to the central government, there is a need for professionalization of social work in Nigeria, and that the central government and all federating units (states) of the Nigerian federation should create enabling environment for active citizen participation in development programmes. Keywords: Restructuring, Sustainability, development, Macro social work, Programme
dc.identifier.citationRestructuring, Sustainability, development, Macro social work, Programme
dc.identifier.issn1996 - 4124
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/16957
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublished by Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
dc.relation.ispartofseries10(2); 64-77.
dc.titleRestructuring and Sustainable Development Programmes in Nigeria: Implications for Macro Social Work Practice.
dc.title.alternativePolitical Science Review
dc.typeArticle

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