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A COMMENT ON CENTRAL-LOCAL GOVERNMENT RELATIONS IN NIGERIAT

This paper contains some comments on the relationship between the central government as the local governments.One of the principal objectives is to highlight the problems underlying the third-tier of government and its impact on development at the grassroots.Functions either are assigned to levels of government in Nigeria exclusively or concurrently.Local governments in Nigeria are constitutionally assigned specific functions for which they are best positioned to perform.Consequently, whatever functions are specifically allocated to any level of government could be performed by that level with…