IJMSS Vol.04 Issue-05 (May, 2016) ISSN: 2321-1784 International Journal in Management and Social Science (Impact Factor- 5.276) A Monthly Double-Blind Peer Reviewed Refereed Open Access International e-Journal - Included in the International Serial Directories International Journal in Management and Social Science http://www.ijmr.net.in email id- irjmss@gmail.com Page 313 ISSUES OF CORRUPTION AND GOVERNANCE WITH LEADERSHIP: REVIEW OF THE NIGERIAN PUBLIC SECTORS: WHAT’S THE WAY FORWARD? AYEKU OLUWASEGUN OLUWAGBENGA 1 School of Business Management University Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia ALUKO FOLASADE ABIMBOLA 2 Center for human development and techno-communications University Malaysia Perlis, Perlis, Malaysia Abstract: The public sector of each country is basic to its national improvement. Through its services, offices and agencies, government sets up policies, projects and administrations that electrify improvement at all levels, stimulating economical progress and increased trust and association between the government of the state and the general population. In Nigeria, the public sector has turned into an encapsulation of all that is fraudulent, corrupt and deceitful. Self-protection is preferred to national importance and the leadership crisis predominance at all levels of basic leadership has further extended the imbroglio. In this way, Nigeria has lost grip in its endeavour to accomplish national advancement due to the harmful atmosphere of "cleave I-slash" governmental issues, ethnicity, average quality, partisanship, cronyism, tainted procedure of recruitment of pioneers, among other features. This study has distinguished the ferocious impediment to national development in Nigeria as a twist off of the leadership crisis and dishonesty common in its public sector and has provided important propositions. Key words: Corruption, Leadership crisis, National development and public sector, INTRODUCTION It is a saying that Nigeria is lavishly enriched by provision with human and material assets basic for national improvement and development. Moreover, following political independence, Nigeria has kept on winding powerlessly and of course in an "adolescent" state. A state which had exceptionally awesome prospects at freedom and was touted to lead Africa out of the woodlands of underdevelopment and economy dependency, Nigeria is still stuck in the class of extremely poor, corrupt, underdeveloped, infrastructural rotting, crisis driven, ethically bankrupt and leadership-deficient nation of the South. As opposed to representing a model of transformational leadership, modern administration, national improvement, national integration and development, Nigeria is by all accounts seems to be recognized for whatever is average, corrupt, madly savage and ethically untoward. Subsequently, one can't but concur with the position that Nigeria is a casualty of poor leadership and convoluted systemic corruption which has gotten to be pervasive and destructive in the nation's national life. This perspective has been held emphatically in writing by researchers and essayists who have recognized the unyielding nexus between leadership crisis and corruption in the nation as the proceeded reason behind Nigeria's undignified financial throes, political convolutions and national underdevelopment. Current deliberations lean on the conclusion that Nigerian leadership experiences an extreme immorality and attitudinal depravity (Agbor, 2011; Agbor, 2012; Ezirim,