Public Administration as an Enabling Architecture for the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria: An Integrative Review and Conceptual Framework

Nigeria's progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends not only on the volume of resources committed to health, education, gender equality, infrastructure and peace, but on the administrative systems that convert policy into delivered services. This preprint presents an integrative review and conceptual framework that positions public administration as an enabling architecture for the SDGs. It synthesises a body of sixteen recent Nigerian studies on administrative efficiency, accountability, digital governance, social-sector delivery, peace and justice institutions, and infrastructure and urban development, and situates them within wider scholarship on governance capacity and accountability. The paper proposes the Governance-SDG Enabling Architecture (GSEA), in which four enablers (capable administration, accountable institutions, digital and e-governance systems, and inclusive policy) operate through four transmission channels to influence five SDG clusters. Six propositions and a sequenced reform pathway are advanced. The argument is conceptual and does not report new primary data; it is intended to structure future empirical testing and to inform reform sequencing in Nigerian public institutions.