Public policy implementation and national development in Nigeria

The paper examined the effects of Public Policy Implementation on National Development in Nigeria. Public policy implementation is a very important stage in the public policy process. This is because the nature of implementation determines whether public policy will achieve its intended goals or not. This is not to say that apart from implementation other factors such as corruption, policy abandonment or discontinuity among others do not affect public policy one way or the other. But as far as this paper is concerned much emphasis is laid on the issue of public policy implementation. This paper adopted the secondary method of data collection and the data gathered were analyzed with the use of historical and descriptive methods. The paper adopted the political systems theory as a theoretical framework. The paper found out that many policies in Nigeria were not able to contribute meaningfully to national development because of poor implementation of such policies. Against this backdrop, the paper recommended amongst other things that the government should try as much as possible to make those policies it has the capacity to implement to avoid wastage of the Nation's resources with its attendant consequences on national development.