This study investigated Fiscal Allocation and Administrative effectiveness
of managers of Federal universities in the South-East and South-South Zones of Nigeria.
The causal comparative design was adopted while two hypotheses which covered the
sub-variables of the research were formulated to guide the study. Two ten point semantic
differential instruments were developed and validated for the study: Fiscal Allocation
and Administrative Effectiveness Questionnaire (FAAEQ) and University managers
Administrative Effectiveness Questionnaire (UMAEQ) were used to obtain data from
600 purposively sampled subjects and 2,400 randomly selected lecturers from a
population of 640 managers and 8,654 lecturers respectively in the eight universities
within the area of study. The data were analyzed using population t-test. The study
revealed a significantly high level of fiscal allocation to universities in Nigeria and that
universities manager’s administrative effectiveness was equally significantly high. It
was concluded that fiscal allocation in terms of the levels of subvention, internal revenue,
grant/aid has a significantly high influence on the administrative effectiveness of
university managers in terms of budgeting, decision-making and management of finance,
personnel, curriculum and plant/facilities.