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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Nigerian Local Government System and Governance: Lessons, Prospects and Challenges for Post-2015 Development Goals
Author : Muhammad Kabir Isa
Published in: Developmental Local Governance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Local government in Nigeria, just like the Nigerian State, is a colonial creation. It has undergone many vicissitudes and reforms, the most popular of which has been the 1976 reforms, which to a large extent still inform the operational framework today. Before 1976, it had been a situation of confusion, traditionalism and, in some cases, neglect. The culture of local government thrived more seriously in the north than in the south. In fact, the more the success story of indirect rule in a particular area, the better practice of local government thrived in such areas.