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Challenges of Local Government Administration in Edo State of Ngieria

This paper examined the fundamental problems that envelope local government administration in Edo State, and discovered that the challenges are constitutional issues. It also identified problems of graft, poor revenue generation by local authorities, and poor revenue allocation cum fiscal transfer to local governments. Besides, the paper identified erosion of fiscal autonomy and failure of local governments to be responsible for their inability to impact positively on the citizenry. Primarily, information was sourced through the interviews of purposively selected Local Government Officials of …