Contending Issues in Governance and Democracy at the Local Government Level in Nigeria

Abstract

By the constitution being the supreme authority of a state, the Nigerian Nation is made up of three layers of government at the federal, state and local government levels. Specifically, it was the second republic constitution of 1979 that gave constitutional recognition to local government authorities as third tier agencies of government. The constitution (1979), section 7, sub-section 1 stated that,