2025-03-27https://repository.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/32756The paper is a synthesis of some concepts and issues in Development Administration. It approached the discourse in a concise and lucid manner which was anchored essentially on secondary data and analytical framework. This paper interrogated some of the constraints to Nigeria’s drive towards development, located within the environment in which public administration operates and highlighted the administrative, political, economic and socio-political imperatives of developmentapplication/pdfJA Political science (General), JZ International relationsArticle