Local Government and Rural Infrastructural Delivery in Nigeria

Abstract

In the contemporary world today, the need to decentralize administration to facilitate efficiency, effectiveness and good governance has become the rule rather than the exception. Both developed and developing countries ensure that services are delivered to the people at the grassroots. It is no doubt that these services are delivered via a structure put in place by these countries, which are given different names. In Nigeria, it is called local government. Larger percentage of people in Nigeria live in the rural areas, where most of the local foods are produced, and bulk of votes also reside. It is however unfortunate that larger percentage of local government in Nigeria lack basic rural infrastructure needed to engender development. It is against this background that this paper assessed the level of rural infrastructure at the grassroots level with a view to identify the problems militating infrastructural development. The paper relied on both primary and secondary data to source its data. The paper submitted that for genuine development to take place in the rural areas necessary infrastructure must be put in place.