The president-in-council:
Date
1992
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Publisher
Ikeja: Malthouse Press Limited
Abstract
■ Cabinet Systems in Comparative Perspective;
■ Cabinet Secretariat;
■ Organizational Structure of the Council Secretariat (Federal);
■ Council Memoranda;
■ Council Conclusions;
■ Management of Council Meetings;
■ EXCO Systems in the States of the Federation;
■ Council Secretariat Staff;
■ Conditions of Service for Council Secretariat;
Description
This book focuses on the activities of the Council/Cabinet Secretariat of the Federal Government of Nigeria; nevertheless, it is necessary to discuss briefly some cabinet systems which may have directly or indirectly influenced the evolution of the Nigerian model. In this regard, the British and the US cabinet systems are justifiably singled out for discussion. For the purposes of comparison, however, two continental systems, namely: the German and the French, are added. The British and the German Cabinets are by-products of parliamentary democracies while the French and the American are offshoots of presidential democracies. Although Nigeria has witnessed both parliamentary and presidential democracies, interspersed by longer periods of military dictatorship, the received cabinet system, as will be shown later, has endured.