Advantages And Disadvantages Of Commercialisation In Nigeria

Before providing myself definition of public service, I want to clarify that there are two types of public service in my mind. The one is basic public service mainly providing by governmental sections, such as construction of infrastructural facilities, basic healthcare insurance, public security service and so on. Compared with the basic public service, the other one is more in-depth, and aims at diverse particular groups; it could be provided by various social sectors. And my definition of public service focuses on the latter one.

In a Consultant’s Report on Business Support in FCT Number 107, by David Irwin in March 2004 for DFID, it was stated on Page 5, paragraph 3.3 that “Governments all around the world now recognise the important contribution that small firms make to the economy- and many governments have established extensive support arrangement to help people start and grow their businesses. In Nigeria, hitherto, there has been no concerted effort to encourage and support new businesses”. Some others have argued that the bane of SMEs in Nigeria is the lack of long-term loans since most loans in the Nigerian market are short-term while what SMEs require to grow and become really successful is long-term patient capital. The death of venture capital financing in Nigeria has also aggravated the situation as venture capital provides long-term patient capital, which allows a small business to grow, as is the case in Ghana and some developed

The concept of service comes from business literature. Many researchers have proposed different definitions of service. Ramaswamy (1996) defined service as "business dealings that take place between the service provider (Donor) and the receiver (Client) to produce a result that satisfied the customer. According to Lovelock & Wirtz (2011) services are economic activities provided by one party to another. in exchange of money, time and effort, service customers expect the value of access to property, labor, professional skills, facilities, networks and systems; but they do not normally take ownership of the physical elements

According to OECD (2010), public services include all services provided by the government as well as all services where the government has a significant influence. It further states that public services can be provided directly by the government or indirectly where the government is not the direct provider but still plays a role in their provision through regulation or a financial contribution. Humphreys (1998) concurs that public services are those services which are mainly or completely funded by taxation and that typically, public services would include the following areas of public management: central and local government, the health authorities, education, defence, justice/home affairs and non-commercial semi state organisations. He further

Public services provided by the government can get very expensive. In order to help reduce/eliminate these high prices some governments choose the option of privatization. Privatization is mainly selling a public service to a private company, making the service no longer under the government’s control. Public services such as, electric utility companies, health care, highway repair and upkeep, and as well as water have been privatized around the world.

To begin dissecting my own definition, I will start with identifying each of the three parts of an academic definition 1) “the term (word or phrase) to be defined”, 2) “the class of object or concept to which the term belongs” and 3) “the differentiating characteristics that distinguish it from all others of its class” (Pepper & Driscoll, 1). By understanding and analyzing the significance to each part of a definition as it applies to “public service” it will help narrow the definition in regard to my own perspective and strengthen the definition I will develop through this paper.

Public service is the passion of an individual or a community to contribute positive work with the goal of developing a sustainable and meaningful service.

In the public sector “an action of helping or doing work for someone” is supplying a public need such as transport, communications or health service. It is a service provided to the population with greater public scrutiny and is not profit motivated. Public sector organisations are agents of the state to do the states ' business and are not in a position to make a profit; they are mandated to provide a service to all.

Sani Abacha used 25% of the federal budget of Nigeria for his personal use (property right). He did that by setting up trust funds scams like Petroleum Trust Fund. In order to keep his scams going he had to pay political leaders (public action violations) some of the money so that they won’t say anything. The results of these violations were that they were just wasting all there natural resources and became one of the poorest country in the world.

The public sector is the part of economic life, not in private ownership, that deals with the production, delivery, and allocation of basic public goods and services at global,1 regional, national,2 or local levels. (Its processes and structures can take the form of direct

A welfare state cannot realize its twin objectives of economic growth and social justice without a well-organized management system. The root cause of Nigeria 's backwardness lies in the underutilization and mystification of the country 's resources.

Oil production in Nigeria’s Niger Delta began in 1956. Ever since then, the Delta communities have recognized unrest as oil was being distributed in profitable quantities. Oil has been Nigeria’s leading export product for more than six decades. Even though, oil has given Nigeria a tremendous economic boost, nearly sixty percent of that oil production has been carried out under Shell’s regulation, and during these past six decades, there has been enormous environmental degradation because of frequent oil spills and gas flaring. This has led to a polluted fish ponds and declining growth of crops in Niger communities. Shell has personally financed Nigerian militants to insure the production of oil, and this has led to brutal murders and illegal executions of community members who tried to protest the damages that shell was creating to their environment. So why and how is Shell still operating and still committing human right crimes in Nigeria? This paper will explain why Shell has dominated Nigeria since the 1950s, how the company has damaged the lives of numerous communities, insured the production of oil to this day through militant use, and still managed to separate themselves from the many years of violence that they founded.

[pic][pic]Finally, the beneficiary of the services provided by the public sector, is the general public. These goods and services are sometimes provided free and in other cases consumers have to pay a price. The goal

The Niger Delta has been a source of illicit international business deals (like the trans-Atlantic slave trade), as far back as the 15th century. Today a new form of syndicated criminal proclivity is threatening the very foundations of Nigeria’s petroleum industry, and by extension, the Nigerian economy, as well as putting tremendous pressure on Chief (General) Olusegun Obasanjo. That problem is the "illegal bunkering" of crude oil and/or its derivatives.

The public sector is comprised of businesses that are owned by the government, with the aim of keeping employment and to provide a service or goods for consumers.