The paper strongly recommended autonomy for local governments. It further canvassed fiscal and political reforms as avenues for strengthening governance in the Nigerian local government system.Onodugo, CHRIS IfeanyiAmujiri, Benjamin AAsogwa, N.S...
I recently published an article on Nigeria Postal codes where I arranged the postal codes of all 36 states in Nigeria. In this particular article, I will be
In Nigeria, a number of factors have contributed to the financial setback experienced by most local governments and these include: overdependence on allocations from state and federal governments which in most cases are withheld by the same federal and state governments; lack of fiscal autonomy; ...
(d) The use of the capital market by the local governments will invariably develop the government bond market in Nigeria; and (e) the use of municipal bonds will not contribute to the inflationary pressure in the economy, since it is an internally generated loan. For this to be achieved, ...
One of the most important results of the global reform of local governments in Nigeria in 1976 was to initiate a progressive increase in the amount of monetary transfers to local governments (LGs) by federal and state governments (especially the former). The proportion of federally collected reven...
However, in Nigeria, empirical evidence shows that underdevelopments have continued to wage on as people are either ignorant of, or indifferent to the reasons for which local governments are created. This paper examines the impact of local government on community and rural development in Nigeria, ...
Despite the expanded scope and capacity to promote self-help and development activities which local governments in Nigeria have been granted since the 1976 local government reform, many local governments have compiled disappointing community and rural development performance records in the immediate postrefo...
Local Government and Good Governance in Nigeira’s Emerging Democracy, 1999-2011: An Analysis of the Constraining FactorsWhen local governments were democratically instituted in Nigeria in 1999, Nigerians widely assumed that democratic rule would usher in good governance at all levels. This study ...
WHY LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA AND OSUN STATE? Local governments in various states and subzones are not just created just for the fun of it, but there are some responsibilities attached to every organ of the local governments. There are three tiers of the government which was one of the ...
Local Government and Social Service Delivery in Nigeria: A Content Analysis Government exists primarily to provide services that will make life worth living. Accordingly, local governments as third tier government are created to bring government closer to the people at the grassroots and for ...