EFFECTS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KWARA STATE)

INTRODUCTION Local Government is a government at a local level which functions through representative councils, established by law to control local affairs and given financial power to initiate and direct the provision of services and implement project with a view to complementing the activities of the state and federal government in their local areas. It is aimed at ensuring that the people use their own initiative to their very best and satisfy their own local needs. After many years of existence, it has defeated that the local authority system were colonially oriented, they were not viable due to man power for any constructive development in share, they were ineffective as they could not meet their aspirations of which resulted to break down of communalization between the people and their system these reasons have necessitated in reform of the local government authority step. Based on the importance role of local government in social political and economic development of country, various attempts have been made at different stages of the country political life to modify local government and reorganized them to perform their assigned roles.
Although from the 1950s, attempt  were made towards reforming local government system of administration in Nigeria by the various regime, but it was the 1976 reforms that can be regarded as a radical attempt towards reorganization of local government system in the country. It marked the first intervention in the local government affairs by the federal government as well as the fairest attempt to introduce uniform local government system in the country and for once Nigerian became optimistic, that at last sanity was being brought to the chaotic situation of our local government system. The reform tackled the problem structures, composition, and funding of local government. it generally provided a frame work through which the local government can make meaningful impact towards the socio political and economic development of the Nigerian society.
Therefore, the framework of this project critically look at the impact of local government communities and analysis its development  so far, local government as the closest to the government is expected to bring  government nearer to the people because its affairs largely in the hand of the indigenes in deliberating matters affecting them. As it is commonly said, “the strength of chain is the strength of its weakest link” therefore , there is urgent need for local government to ensure that every community or a group of community forces themselves into development communal labour of self help project and erasing the erroneous impression that government must provide everything for them out of their mind.
TABLE OF CONTENT Title page  Certification  Dedication  Acknowledgement  Table of content 
CHAPTER ONE  1.1Introduction  1.2Statement of the problem 1.3Purpose/objective of the study  1.4Significance of the study  1.5Research of the study  1.6Scope and limitation of the study  1.7Organization of the study/plan of the study  1.8Definition of the term  Reference   
CHAPTER TWO  Literature review  2.1Introductions  2.2Theoretical frame work 2.3Current trends in thinking 2.4Summary of the chapter  Reference 
CHAPTER THREE Research Methodology 3.1Introduction  3.2Sample and Population of the Study  3.3Method of Data Analysis  3.4Sources of data Collection Instrument  3.5Research Problem 
CHAPTER FOUR  Data Presentation and Analysis  4.1Introductions  4.2Brief History 4.3Presentations of Data  4.4Testing of Hypothesis 4.5 Analysis of Data  4.6Summary of the Chapter 
CHAPTER FIVE  5.1Summary of Findings  5.2Recommendations  5.3Conclusions  References 5.4Bibliography