ABSTRACT
Political instability and the Nigerian civil war were major obstacles to infrastructure development. Several military coups disrupted its continuity of governance and infrastructure development. The corruption perception index has been used as a global barometer for measuring corruption as well as a yardstick for good governance by the World Bank Group and the Forum for New World Governance. The inability of Nigeria’s government to adequately tackle most developmental challenges, such as poverty, unemployment, security, and the deplorable state of infrastructure, has been attributed to lack of good governance. The reality is that the magnitude of corruption in Nigeria, especially bureaucratic corruption, has made good governance practically impossible. Nigeria has enacted many development plans and other long-term, medium-term, and short-term plans aimed at achieving defined macroeconomic goals and objectives with multi-faceted economic and social benefits to citizens. Lack of continuity in government plans, policies, programs, and projects has been the bane of infrastructure development in Nigeria.
