Challenges of Ethics and Accountability in Nigeria Civil Service: Implication for Counseling.

Abstract

Ethics and accountability remains the major challenges confronting the Nigerian Civil Service. It can be observed that rules and regulations are no longer observed in the civil and public service. This may perhaps be as a result of the kind of people recruited into the civil and public service and also the human personality that brought them for employment. The Nigerian civil and public service has lost its image and productivity as many staff come to work late and close early not minding whether government losses or not but to get their salary at the end of the month. These attitudes have seriously affected the Nigerian civil service system. The system no longer works as it was before as a result of nonchalant attitude of staffs towards work and Government policies. It is in the light of the above that, this paper is poised to examine the problems confronting the civil service and the counseling interventions that could help to build a strong and viable civil service.