Public Sector Performance in the Nigerian Downstream Oil Sector: A Critical Reflection

Despite successive attempts to effectively manage Nigeria’s downstream oil sector by strengthening the country’s institutional capacity, the Nigerian public institutions remain ineffective, inefficient, wasteful, incapacitated, inept, unprofessional and uninspired to drive the reform in the downstre...

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Published inJournal of Asian and African studies (Leiden) Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 476 - 490
Main Authors Akinola, Adeoye O, Wissink, Henry
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2018
Sage Publications Ltd. (UK)
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Company business management
Deregulation
Distribution
Forecasts and trends
Institutions
Management
Market trend/market analysis
Marketing
New public management
Oil
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Public administration
Public institutions
Public sector
Reforms
Subsidies
Nigeria
downstream oil sector
institutional capacity
subsidy
deregulation
Development
new public management theory
Nigeria
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Summary:Despite successive attempts to effectively manage Nigeria’s downstream oil sector by strengthening the country’s institutional capacity, the Nigerian public institutions remain ineffective, inefficient, wasteful, incapacitated, inept, unprofessional and uninspired to drive the reform in the downstream oil sector. Public institutions have failed to successively oversee management of the downstream oil sector. This paper draws on the new public management theory and unstructured interviews to assess the role of public institutions in the distribution and marketing segments of the oil sector. It concludes that poor public sector performance is responsible for the crisis in the oil industry that led to subsidy cuts and efforts to deregulate the downstream oil sector.
ISSN:0021-9096
1745-2538
DOI:10.1177/0021909617692139