State and Local Government Relations in Nigeria and Implications for Rural Development
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Seminar paper from the year 2025 in the subject Organisation and administration - Public administration, grade: A, Ebonyi State University (Facullty management sciences), course: Public Administration, language: English, abstract: This research paper aims to examine the existence and origins of the local government system in Nigeria since independence, as well as the persistent demand for local government autonomy as the third tier of governance in the federation. Notably, the federal government under the current administration of Ahmed Bola Tinubu has recently granted local government autonom...
Seminar paper from the year 2025 in the subject Organisation and administration - Public administration, grade: A, Ebonyi State University (Facullty management sciences), course: Public Administration, language: English, abstract: This research paper aims to examine the existence and origins of the local government system in Nigeria since independence, as well as the persistent demand for local government autonomy as the third tier of governance in the federation. Notably, the federal government under the current administration of Ahmed Bola Tinubu has recently granted local government autonomy. However, local governments remain under the control of state governments. To enhance the autonomy and philosophy of governance at the local level, the federal government enshrined the statutory nature of local government in the 1979 Constitution. Even the military administration of General Ibrahim Babangida took bold steps in 1986 to strengthen local government autonomy. By January 1988, significant measures were introduced, including the abolition of state ministries of local government throughout the country, thereby reducing political interference and bureaucratic red tape caused by these ministries. This paper also highlights that the Act establishing the State Joint Local Government Account (SJLGA) was passed in 1981 by the National Assembly. However, the domestication and implementation of its provisions by the states in the federation only took effect in the early years of the Fourth Republic when State Houses of Assembly passed SJLGA laws to give effect to these constitutional provisions. The methodology employed in this study is content analysis, which involves the examination of data from the Local Government Constitutional Act, local government reforms, and secondary documentary sources such as textbooks, academic journals, conference papers, articles, and online resources accessed via the university library. The paper recommends that Section 7 and the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which address local government matters, be reviewed to grant local governments greater autonomy and protect them from interference by state governmen
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