Prof. Adedotun Oluwole Phillips was a public servant par excellence whose entire life was defined around service. His contributions to the public service in Nigeria tie into Nigeria's effort to make sense of the state and future of her public service as a backstop to her development and progress. The Phillipson-Adebo Commission of 1953 kickstarted the series of reform commissions that culminated in the emergence of the Nigerian public service system, and the other post-independence reform efforts meant to complete the organizational development dynamics of the civil service, convert her structural frameworks into institutional frame, and strengthen its capability readiness for national integration and development. The Nigerianisation Policy sought to recruit Nigerians of different ethno-cultural orientations into the civil service, but the over-bloatedness of the system led to a crippling bureaucratic culture. This led to the gradual evolution of a structural pattern that whittled down the civil service's capacities to promote good governance, and the corruption of the governance and accountability framework of the public service.
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