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    ABERRATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS TO GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA.
    (Al-Hikmah University Journal of Public and International law (AUJPIL) Vol. 1(1).125-140 Published by Al-Hikmah University Public and International Law Department, Ilorin, Nigeria., 2017) Ayinla-Ahmad Bilikis Ph.D*; HANAFI A. HAMMED, Ph.D*; MARYAM BAYERO-JIMOH; ADIO SALIU WAHAB, Ph.D
    The study seek to examine the effects and aberrations of Constitutional provisions to the effectiveness of local government as the third tier of in the local government administration. The study relied on primary Federal Republic of Nigeria, textbooks, journals, newspaper and internet. The study revealed that the constitutional provisions relating to local government have wreck serious havoc to the effectiveness of local government as the tier of government in Nigeria. The study therefore recommended that the Constitution should grant the Local Government the rights to conduct their own affairs ranging from conducting elections into the local governments, disbursement of allocations and other funds accruable to them from the Federation Account. Henceforth, local governments should be receiving their revenue allocation directly from the federal account and that the Joint State Local Government Accounts should be abolished. Human rights issues should be integral to development and there is need to strengthen the existing human rights initiatives and institutions that will have direct bearing on local people. Also local government must contained in. the New Partnership for Africa's Development/African Peer Review Mechanism declaration on democracy and good governance.