International records / OpenAlex research

Local Government Administration in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges and the Way Forward

Local government as the third tier of government in Nigeria constitutes the most critical level of government at which the momentum to sustain national development can be attained. This level of government over the years has been accused of non-performance to the extent that some scholars and politicians have called for its scrap off as a tier of government in Nigeria. Against this back drop, the paper adopting qualitative research design in which data were largely derived from secondary sources found out that Local government administration in Nigeria has suffered a lot of deprivations in the…