RESOURCE GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY ASSURANCE IN NIGERIA: REFLECTIONS ON IPACEEL THEORY

Abstract

Quality assurance (QA) obtains in resource governance (RG) where and when resources are well harnessed and managed sustainably. RG issues in Nigeria question QA therein. This study examines the extent of QA in RG in Nigeria, highlighting issues and prospects of QA and GR. Leaning on the Integrity and Public Accountability Criteria of Ethical and Exemplary Leadership (IPACEEL) theory, the study argues that ethical leadership offers appreciable QA and RG to a reasonable extent. The study relies on observation and secondary data. Qualitative method, content analysis and descriptive and interpretive tools were employed. The analysis shows that following bad governance, leadership misdeeds, and politicians’ and other elite’s misdeeds, quality assurance in resource governance in Nigeria is currently low, while the RG is weak. The study concludes that effective resource governance allows for quality assurance, which has a lot of prospects for the nation having the resources. Among others, it recommends that sustained ethics-based criteria should be instituted and made operational for the attainment of effective and productive resource governance and to guarantee QA.