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Challenges of Local Government Administration in Nigeria and the Way Forward

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Ethiopian International Journal Of Multidisciplinary Research

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Local governments in Nigeria created as agents of societal transformation and a training ground for political participation have failed to record unquestionable success as anticipated in the 1976 Local Government Reforms and the1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria. Its failure in terms of service delivery motivated this paper to examine the growth of local government, the challenges and the way forward. This paper was descriptive and relied on secondary data sources such as relevant text books, journal, and Internet materials. The experience of the principal researcher as a former local government administrator combined with unstructured interview of few staff of some local governments in Kwara state provided a rich data source. It found that undue interference by the state governments in the management of LG, corruption, bogus expectation for personal gains by godfathers and political gladiators, indiscipline among other constitute the basic challenges of efficient and effective management. The paper concluded that the challenges were institutional and attitudinal in nature but is not insurmountable given strong political will to confront them. It recommended the amendment of Section7 (7) of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria to forestall undue interference by the state government. In addition, the strengthening of institutional mechanisms to curb corruption and the Independent National Electoral Commission to to conduct LG election to as well as the citizenry to development active interest in the management of the council.

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NWOGWUGWU,N. ALAO,D. . (2015). Challenges of Local Government Administration in Nigeria and the Way Forward, 31 (), 1-1.

NWOGWUGWU,N. ALAO,D. . "Challenges of Local Government Administration in Nigeria and the Way Forward" 31, no (), (2015): 1-1.

NWOGWUGWU,N. and ALAO,D. and . (2015). Challenges of Local Government Administration in Nigeria and the Way Forward, 31 (), pp1-1.

NWOGWUGWUN, ALAOD, . Challenges of Local Government Administration in Nigeria and the Way Forward. 2015, 31 ():1-1.

NWOGWUGWU,Ngozi , and ALAO,David . "Challenges of Local Government Administration in Nigeria and the Way Forward", 31 . (2015) : 1-1.

N.Ngozi & A.David , "Challenges of Local Government Administration in Nigeria and the Way Forward" vol.31, no., pp. 1-1, 2015.

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