DEVELOPING A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL, INFRASTRUCTURAL THRIVING NIGERIA

(A LOGIC MODEL APPROACH FOR DEVELOPMENT )

By

Obuks Augustine Ejohwomu and Banake Elisha Sambo

Presented To

Department of Management Technology

Nigeria is currently the largest economy in Africa with a per capita GDP that ranks 121st in the world.  The impact of this sudden change on the different sectors of the Nigerian economy needs to be well understood for the benefit of sectorial sustainability.  Drawing on a review of developmental policies and programmes since post-independence era, the programme logic model is accepted as a framework for addressing the research aim, which is to develop a framework for the developmental future of Nigeria.  A 6-way heuristic evaluation is carried out based on problems/issues, stakeholders’ needs/assets, desired results, influential factors, strategies, and assumptions.  This approach provides a schematic play-out of the feasibility of the evaluated programmes.  Analysis shows that, while there has been policy mismatch and poor implementation of programmes by governments, the various proposed programmes were well intended towards developing a thriving Nigeria.  The suggested short-term strategy is to incentivise cash crops farming.  In the medium-term, the strategy should be aimed at hastening the implementation of the infrastructure master plan and public-private partnerships with successful short-term stakeholders.  For the long-term, the prescribed strategies for achieving the technology development are core implementation of science and technology policies and adequate innovation and management of technologies.  The implication, therefore, is that there is urgent need to encourage ‘productive’ infrastructural development, which will jump start a knowledge based economy in the medium-term, and a serviced based economy in the long-term.
 KEYWORDS: Logic Model Approach, Short, Medium, Long Term Economy, Infrastructural, Developmental, Programmes, Policies 

Nigeria is a country richly endowed with both diverse human and natural resources.  The country had been viewed â€�“internationallyâ€Â� as an underdeveloped nation with an unpredictable political system.  The advent of the current democratic governance structure is expected to put Nigeria in the world knowledge economy index chart were Nigeria is currently not featured.  More so, the quest for good leadership by the populace has been enhanced via the democratic process which started sixteen years ago.  Succeeding administrations at the three tiers of government, Federal, State and Local, have been portraying their predecessors as regimes with gross policy mismatch. This conflict of interests has resulted into abandonment of policies and programmes established over time.  And the resulting impact has been significant increase in cost of projects because they are either abandoned or negotiated at exorbitant contract sums [6].
Nation building is a task bestowed on every person of honour, whether in the corridor-ofpower or while practising his/her profession; as a nation is a dynamic â€�“entityâ€Â�.  It either grows or decreases in standards.  The perceived building blocks of our country are usually represented in sectors.  These are mainly, primary, secondary and tertiary in nature, with regards to their impact on the stability of the country economically.  Figure 1 is a schematic representation of Nigerian economic Sectors -