ASSESSMENT OF PERCEIVED IMPACT OF CORRUPT PRACTICES ON SPORTS DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
ASSESSMENT OF PERCEIVED IMPACT OF CORRUPT PRACTICES ON SPORTS DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
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2017-04
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DAN’ASABE, Dahiru Abdullahi
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The study examined the perceived impact of corrupt practices on the personnel, facilities/
equipment, management of the sports associations, sports competitions and officiating in the State
Sports Councils in Nigeria. The Ex-Post Facto research designed was used for this study. The
population for this study cut across coaches, athletes, organizing secretaries and management staff of
the State Sports Council in Nigeria. A self-developed questionnaire was pilot tested and found to
be reliable. The questionnaire was thereafter used for this study in selected two states sports council
from each of the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. The data collected was statistically analyzed
using descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage, means and standard deviation to answer the
research questions and One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses
generated for this study. From the result of the data analyzed most of the means scores of the
research questions were higher that the acceptable level of 3.5. In addition most of the calculated
indices were less than the critical value of 2.62 at df 3,399, that is f calculated < critical values. All
the null hypotheses were retained. The researcher therefore concluded that corrupt practices are
perceived to have serious impact on sports development in Nigeria. It is recommended that there
should be zero-tolerance approach against corruption in sports with adequate and proportionate
responses in all potential cases to show that corruption is not welcome in sports in Nigeria. Attention
should be focused on how to block every opportunity that will pave way for corrupt practices, so as
to have efficient and effective sports development in Nigeria.
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A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PhD) IN
SPORTS MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA, NIGERIA
Keywords
ASSESSMENT,, PERCEIVED IMPACT,, CORRUPT PRACTICES,, SPORTS DEVELOPMENT,, NIGERIA