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Governance and Infrastructural Development in Benue State

This study examines the relationship between governance and infrastructural development in Benue State, Nigeria, with the objective of assessing how governance quality, institutional actions, and policy processes influence the pace and quality of infrastructure delivery. It interrogates why Benue State, despite its abundant human and natural resources, continues to experience infrastructural decay, unemployment, and poverty. Anchored on elite theory, the paper adopts a conceptual and theoretical approach to analyse how governance practices, policy priorities, and institutional structures shape…