This is a textbook that fully covers both parts of the NBTE syllabus for the National Diploma's course in citizenship education in Nigerian polytechnics and colleges of technology.

It covers topics such as the constitution and its significance; the federal system of government; citizenship, constitutional rights and obligations of citizens; fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy; government, political parties and elections; power, authority, leadership and followership; bureaucracy; discipline and nation building; national development; and environmental pollution, with the required technical precision and theoretical depth.