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 …