PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

ABSTRACT This study examined the challenges of local government autonomy in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study interrogates the following questions: 1. Does federalism guarantee local government autonomy? 2. Does the financial dependence of local governments on statutory allocation from federal government undermine provision of social amenities in Kolokuma/Opokuma Bayelsa […]

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study One of the greatest problems of Nigerian public service is the prevailing incidence of corruption. Corruption therefore has become a persistent cancerous phenomenon which bedevils Nigeria public sector. Misappropriation, bribery, embezzlement, nepotism, and money laundering by public officials have permeated the fabric of the society. Any attempt

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The purpose of the legislature all over the world is to make laws and ensure public accountability through its oversight functions. The local government legislative council was established for this purpose. In Nigeria, we have the national assembly at the federal level, the state house of assembly

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Manpower development and utilization is of utmost importance to any sector, as it deals with how best to keep employees comfortable in their jobs, up-to-date, resourceful and versatile; this is expected to ensure optimal and continual performance of their assigned roles in an efficient and effective manner.

Local governments in Nigeria are faced with many difficulties in generating adequate finance to perform their constitutional responsibilities; such problems are a cog in the wheel to the smooth running of local government administration. These challenges include dishonesty on the part of officer collecting the revenues, such as cases of printing receipts by the officers.

Following the enactment of the Infrastructural Concessions Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Act in Nigeria, Abia state government keyed into the framework of the PPP in 2007. This was in a bid to bridge the infrastructural gap in the state and to actualize the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially as it affects the development

CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Finance has emerged as the most critical policy issue in intergovernmental relations in every federal administrative system since the Second World War. This is because in most federal countries of the world, intergovernmental relations have been contentious. The revenue allocations have equally been contentious, distribution of resources

Poverty has to do with living below whatever is defined as a minimum standard of living based on per capital income or consumption of individuals or household in a country. The local government system is set up, to help curtail the prevalence of poverty at the local level in order to engender national development in

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION The expediency for the creation of local government any where in the world stems from the need to facilitate development at the grassroots. The importance of local government is a function of its ability to generate a sense of belongingness, safety and satisfaction amongst its populace. All forms of government, regimes

INTRODUCTION Man as an individual and in society is a being of social nature. Hence, the life of man is the life of social interaction. Man’s social interaction does not exist in isolation of social problems and as maninteracts in different spheres of life – politically, economically, technologically, educationally, andotherwise, these social problems diffuse and