LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS KEY IN CITIZEN’S LIFE
Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails (Joy Reid) I recently wrote an article about a nation’s development being underpinned by healthy and well-educated people. In Nigeria, our local government areas are the closest government to people, especially at the grassroots, and they are responsible for delivering essential services to meet the needs of communities. Local governments have constitutional responsibility in primary education and primary health care, as stipulated in the concurrent legislative list of the 1999 constitution. All around the world, education and health are the cornerstone of a nation's system and are the foundation for a country’s development. In Nigeria, the administration and funding of education and health involve the three tiers of government (local, state, and federal), with the local governments expected to play a critical role at the primary level and provide the foundation upon which secondary and tertiary e