00998pab a2200097 454500008003600000100002100036245007400057520069400131650002800825773004700853180718b   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aOlojede, Iyabo A  aProfessionalization of Nigerian civil service: problems and prospects  aThe author discusses the civil service reforms and restructuring of the central bureaucracy in Nigeria under the 1988 civil service reforms. Aspects of the changes include abolition of the position of Permanent secretary and rotational posting of officers in the administrative class from Ministry to Ministry. A major plank of the changes is the professionalizaion of the Negerian civil Service. The writer therefore examines some of the prospects and problems of the new system. Suggests fundamental structural change in the Nigerian civil service and a continuous monitoring and evaluation of the reform by the government with a view to making necessary amendments to unforseen problems  aCivil Service - Nigeria  aGreenhill Journal of Public Administration