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The Challenges Of The Smooth Administration Of Local Government In Nigeria
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The topic of this study is specially designed to enable us examine the
challenge of local government administration in Nigeria and also to
pin-point those barriers hindering the effective administration of local
governments
These have been much emphasis on effective local
government administration in Nigeria. This is due to the awareness of
the critical role local government can play in stimulation cruel
development. It is also behave that since the government is now brought
close to the people , their development process can be made easy and as
such development will be facilitated at this level by the local
government.
In all the attempt at rural transformation in
Nigeria, there has been emphasis on working through existing local
authorities the 1979 and 1989 constitutions of the federal republic of
Nigeria empowered local government to provide certain basic services.
Despite the changes in all those reforms and local authorities there
has not been any meaningful solutions to these problems but rather the
problems more compounded.
Local government is grassroots
government by authors and bodies. Maddick (1963) defines local
government as a sub-unit of government controlled by a local council
which is authorized by the central government to pass ordinance having a
local application levy taxes or exact labour and within limit specified
by the central government, vary centrally decided policy in applying it
locally
The Nigeria local government reform document of 1976
defines local government as government at local level exercised by
representative council, established by law to exercise specific power
within defined areas.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Local
government is an indispensable element in the governing of the country
and also a provider and administration of basic services.
However on the recent years there has been a general consensus by the
people that local government administration in Nigeria is faced with
various problems such as lack of funds, corruption, multiplicity of
functions, misappropriate of funds, political instability politics etc,
all these drawn my attention to this research topic.
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