Privatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State

The state of electricity supply in Nigeria is nothing to write home about. The situation has resulted in the government adopting the privatization policy as the elixir to the affliction of inadequate power supply in the country. Thus, this paper investigated the privatization policy of the power sec...

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Autores principales:	Raji Abdulwasiu Adeyemi, Mohd.Haniff Jedin, Muhammed Subhan, Nurhaizal Azam Arif
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Materias:	privatization policy rural development. ijumu nigeria International relations JZ2-6530
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d174ed7f07214a65ac141c436bfb83432021-11-18T04:36:25ZPrivatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State10.32890/jis2017.13.61823-691Xhttps://doaj.org/article/d174ed7f07214a65ac141c436bfb83432017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/jis/article/view/jis2017.13.6https://doaj.org/toc/1823-691XThe state of electricity supply in Nigeria is nothing to write home about. The situation has resulted in the government adopting the privatization policy as the elixir to the affliction of inadequate power supply in the country. Thus, this paper investigated the privatization policy of the power sector and how it affects development in the rural areas of the Ijumu local government of Kogi State, Nigeria. The modernization theory was adopted in this paper. Data acquired from 120 respondents selected with the use of the three-stage sampling procedure, was analyzed with Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS/PC) Version 20. The study revealed that privatization of the power sector has not transformed into a significant improvement in electricity supply. Consequently, the study recommends that there is need for the government to ensure that the policy adopted should be of optimum form to achieve the desired results. Raji Abdulwasiu AdeyemiMohd.Haniff JedinMuhammed SubhanNurhaizal Azam ArifUUM Pressarticleprivatization policyrural development. ijumunigeriaInternational relationsJZ2-6530ENJournal of International Studies, Vol 13, Pp 85-96 (2017)
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spellingShingle	privatization policy rural development. ijumu nigeria International relations JZ2-6530 Raji Abdulwasiu Adeyemi Mohd.Haniff Jedin Muhammed Subhan Nurhaizal Azam Arif Privatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State
description	The state of electricity supply in Nigeria is nothing to write home about. The situation has resulted in the government adopting the privatization policy as the elixir to the affliction of inadequate power supply in the country. Thus, this paper investigated the privatization policy of the power sector and how it affects development in the rural areas of the Ijumu local government of Kogi State, Nigeria. The modernization theory was adopted in this paper. Data acquired from 120 respondents selected with the use of the three-stage sampling procedure, was analyzed with Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS/PC) Version 20. The study revealed that privatization of the power sector has not transformed into a significant improvement in electricity supply. Consequently, the study recommends that there is need for the government to ensure that the policy adopted should be of optimum form to achieve the desired results.
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author	Raji Abdulwasiu Adeyemi Mohd.Haniff Jedin Muhammed Subhan Nurhaizal Azam Arif
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title	Privatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State
title_short	Privatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State
title_full	Privatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State
title_fullStr	Privatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State
title_full_unstemmed	Privatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State
title_sort	privatization policy and rural development: an assessment of power holding company of nigeria in ijumu local government of kogi state
publisher	UUM Press
publishDate	2017
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Privatization Policy and Rural Development: An Assessment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State

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