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STATE-LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND THE CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF KADUNA STATE (1999-2007)

This paper studied the local government and its relationship with other level of governance and how the issues ofstate-local government relations affect service delivery. Local government remains the closest level of governmentto the people at the grass root level. It was therefore aimed at using it as a means through which service deliverycould be properly carried out. This was said to not be properly and effectively done as a result of too muchinterference in the administration of local governments. This raises the issue of autonomy, its use for localgovernment administration. The paper appl…