: Public administration reform, territorial governance, administrative modernization, African Union alignment

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Recently, the educational circles in Nigeria have been glowed with the federal government’s stipulation that, thenceforth, the minimum age required of any prospective student into the nation’s public tertiary institutions shall not be less than eighteen (18) as against the extant tradition—which required only WAEC, NECO, NABTEB or related certificates of the 9-3-4 system. Even though the extant system had fantastic in principle, the new policy has not fared better—particularly with regards to its age-limitation provision. The policy, it seems, tramples on basic freedoms and has had enormous implications for admission processes into tertiary institutions—especially with regards to conflicting of take-off dates, quality of score-cards, besides other social, legal and ethical issues. By adopting some qualitative/analytical method, the paper examines the various aspects of the new Nigeria’s national policy on education vis-a-vis its implication for brilliance and intelligence in relation to admissibility for further child-mental/rational development. It discovers that the policy constitutes for enormous procedural conundrum for tertiary institutions administration…and some dilemma for parents, children or wards. Hence the work concludes that the new policy infringes upon constitutional child right to freedom of choice/education, an embarrassment to parents/guardians, and an encumbrance to smooth procedures in school administration. In order to improve on the situation in the quest for a better education policy for Nigeria, the work recommends that certain educational features should be integrated to accommodate all facets of human development, accommodating tradition and innovation—health, economic, and technological development programmes amid those on moral values and critical thinking and these should be features of educational projects in Nigerian and Africa social sphere.

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The Nigerian government has consistently implemented economic and social policies aimed at enhancing the social welfare of individuals, which will serve as a catalyst for economic growth and development. However, the nation's low capital accumulation and rapidly growing population have rendered all of their efforts futile. Nigeria's current economic situation is not promising. This research examined Nigeria's population dynamics, savings rates, and economic growth from 1980 to 2020. This analysis establishes the presence of a long-run link between the dependent and independent variables using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) framework. The results showed that indicators of population dynamics are negatively correlated with economic growth, and that throughout the research period, both short- and long-term effects of population dynamics on economic development in Nigeria were seen. On the other hand, the adverse impact is negligible in the near term but substantial in the long term. Additionally, the study's findings indicate that Nigeria's savings rate had a significant negative impact on the country's economic development over the study period, both in the short and long terms. This suggests that the percentage of GDP saved in this economy has a negative effect on economic development. The findings also showed that, over the long and short terms, population dynamics and savings in Nigeria had a positive and substantial association. As a result, it is clear from this study that Nigeria has a low savings rate since the country has not been able to capitalize on its enormous population to increase productivity and the labor force. It is sufficient to infer that the Nigerian government must make investments in the development of human capital, as this would inevitably enhance capital formation and, eventually, contribute to national growth.

Keywords: Population, Dynamics, Saving, Economics Development, ARDL

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026): Journal of Public Administration, Policy and Governance Research (JPAPGR)