Abstract
Nigeria has continued to be a poor and under-developed country because of improper
management of the vast natural and human resources we are endowed with. Personal and
sectional interests have overshadowed national interests and the resultant culture is laissez
faire attitude towards anything designed for common good. This carelessness and corruption
are overt manifestations of psychological states of public property managers such as:
externality locus of control orientation, responsibility attribution away from self, poor mental
health hygiene and 'the Nigerian factor'. Reversal of this trend of poor public property
management can be effected through application of cognitive behavioural approaches as
discussed.