ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES OF THE NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF IDEMILI NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA)
ABSTRACT
The topic of this study “An analysis of development capabilities of the Nigerian local government system:. Which is been considered as an avenue to know the development of rural areas in the country.
This study which was conducted in Idemili North local government embraced these objectives primarily to analyzing the development work carried out in the area via the local government either directly or indirectly motivating and encouraging the people, as well as looking into the factors that constitute impediment to a more rapid development of the areas after local government reform of 1976.
The aim of the project work is therefore to cover a research gap that has existed over these years.
I hope that based on the. “Analysis of the development capabilities” the government may be in position to take a second to retain the reform as it presently is, to amend all or part of it even to totally effective instrument of brining development down to the rural areas.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The local government, which is the third tier of government, has variously defined by many people.
Golding in his book local government defined it simply as the management of their own affairs by the people of a locality.
Akpan offered a more comprehensive definition when he wrote that local government entails the breaking down of country in to small units or localities for the purpose of administration, in which the inhabitants of the different units of localities concerned play a direct and full part through their selected representatives who exercise power or undertake function under the general authority of the national government.
We accept this latter definition since the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria endorse the functions assigned to local government by various state edicts and guarantees democratically elected state.
The system of local government by democratically local government councils is under the constitution guarantees and accordingly, the government of every state shall ensure their existence under a law which provides for the establishment structure composition, finance and function of such councils.
Prior to the federal military government local reform in 1976, the structure of one state to another quite remarkable changes have been made to the main features of our local government system since 1987. The reforms of the last five 95) years have greatly transformed the native of inter government relations, especially the relationship between state and local government, and the internal management organization of local government.
