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Politics Of Local Government And State Creation
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OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The
main objective of the study is to ascertain the efficacy of the
politics of local government and state creation, but the researcher
intends to attain the following specific objective;
To examine the efficacy of the politics of local government and state creation
To examine the relationship between state creation and political stability in Nigeria
To examine the importance of local government politics and state creation to the economic development of Nigeria
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Nigeria
operates a federal system of government comprising three levels of
government viz: the federal, the state and the local governments. The
idea of a federal system presupposes that the different tiers of
government are coordinate and independent in their sphere of functional
jurisdiction. In Nigeria, there are thirty-six states and seven-hundred
and seventy-four local governments. Local governments are perhaps the
most relevant government to the local people given the fact that it is
the closet to the grassroots: a most effective conduct for the public’s
problem. However, the dependence of Nigerian local governments on
external grant jeopardizes the imperative for capacity building
initiatives It is believed that at the completion of the study, the
findings will be of importance to state and local government
administrators as the study will help them in ensuring adequate delivery
of dividend of democracy as the study seek to explore the nemesis and
merit of local government politics and state creation in Nigeria.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Agitations for state creation are almost as old as the Nigerian nation. The more states that are created, the more the problem they are intended to solve persists. Just as the exercises enfeeble the constituent units vis-Ã -vis the federal government so do they detach the units one from the other. The state creation exercises have heightened the indigene-non-indigene phenomenon (statism) which is antithetical to a sense of common nationhood. The federal character principle which is intended to ... Continue reading---
