ABSTRACT
This text is about the relationship between the army junta and federal bureaucracy in Nigeria. The overall process is illustrated by several case studies. Nigeria's Structural Adjustment policy, and the difficulties encountered when the federal ministries responded differently, often adversely, to its implementation is also used to reveal the relationship between the military and public administrators in the nation. As background, the study has traced Nigeria's problems with political development, and especially the roles played by the nation's military rulers and higher bureaucrats since the country gained its freedom from British colonialism.
