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Protecting Local Governments from Arbitrary State and Federal Interference: What Prospects for the 1990s?

The number of local governments in Nigeria has been fixed at 453 by the 1989 Constitution. The key purpose of this provision is to prevent state governments from creating local governments and altering local-government boundaries for political purposes. The provision is part of a larger program of localgovernment reform undertaken by the federal military government to ensure the integrity and autonomy of democratically elected local governments under the Third Republic. States are limited in their ability to intervene in local government affairs, and the federal government has certain direct p…