Retrospecting The Local Government System In Nigeria (1983 - 1993)
Keywords:
Local government, grass root mobilization, democratic representation, colonialism, federalismAbstract
This study, espoused on the structures of local administration in Nigeria as a government operating from the grass root from where government policy thrust must be focused. The study paraphrased the local administrative structures from the pre-colonial era across the post-colonial, early military and late military era as well as the Second Republic civilian regime respectively. However, a special focus of the study hinged on the 1983 - 1984 military administration and its reform processes. It was finally recommended among others that the major players must exhibit high sense of political will to work and to carry the people along in the scheme of things.
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