GRASS ROOT AUTHORITIES AND SOCIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA A CASE STUDY OF TAMBUWAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
TABLE OF CONTENT
Title Page i
Approval page ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Table of contents vi
CHAPTER ONE
- Statement of the Research Problem 5
- Aim and Objectives of the Study 6
- Hypothesis 6
- Significance of the Study 7
- Scope and Limitations of the Study 8
- Scheme of Chapters 10
CHAPER TWO
2.0 Introduction 12
2.2 Definition of Local Government 12
CHAPTER THREE
- Introduction 37
- Research Design 37
- Sample and Sampling Technique 38
- Instruments of Data Collection 38
- Method of Data Collection 39
- Method of Data Analysis 39
- Hypothesis Testing Method 39
CHAPTER FOUR
- Introduction 42
- Findings 43
- Survey Research Questionnaire 57
- Result
CHAPTER FIVE
- Introduction 65
- Summary 65
- Conclusion 66
- Recommendations 68
QUESTIONNAIRE 71
BIBLIOGRAPHY 75
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
In the past two decades, the potential importance of local government’s institutions has increased throughout Nigeria, as the demand for local development and improved services has grown. One of the reasons for this has been the confirmed growths and greater congestions of towns which in its turn, have accentuated such urban problems and crowded roads, inadequate water supplies and absolute sanitary facilities, in both rural and urban areas, the rising expectations and demands on the part of people for more better local public services.
However, local government is a system of administration under which communities and towns are organized to maintain law and order, provide some limited range of social services and public amenities and encourage the cooperation and participation of inhabitants in joint endeavours towards the improvement of their condition of living. It provides the communities with a formal organizational framework which enables them to conduct their affairs effectively and regulate the actions of their members for the general public good. The brief statement on the nature, of local government is relevant only at a stage in the evolution of developing
societies Local government all over the world have been described as government at the local (grassroots) exercised through the decentralization of state, central government through representative councils which are established by law to perform specific duties within restricted geographical areas Ademolokun 1979).
GRASS ROOT AUTHORITIES AND SOCIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA A CASE STUDY OF TAMBUWAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
