Brief Historical Background of Local government System in Nigeria Regardless of nomenclature‚ local government is a creation of British colonial rule in Nigeria. It has overtime experienced change in name‚ structure and composition. Between 1930s and 1940s‚ for instance‚ local government was known as chief-in-council and chief-and-council‚ where traditional rulers were given pride of place in the scheme of things. In the 1950s‚ election was introduced according to the British model in the western
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Maguindanao LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION I – Introduction: The history of national-local relations in the Philippines is characterized by centralism. The central government from the Spanish regime up to now maintained a very strong control and influence over local governments. The evidence of such centralist tendency is Section 4‚ Article X of the 1987 Constitution which provides that‚ “The President of the Philippines shall exercise general supervision over local governments. Provinces
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Introduction Local government institutions have always existed in India in one form or another since ancient times. The present form of urban local government owes its genesis to the British rule. The initiation began with Samuel Laing‚ member of the Viceroy’s Council‚ in the Budget Speech (1861-62) proposing that local services should be based on local resources. Lord Mayo’s Resolution of 1870 introduced the concept of elected representatives in the municipalities. Lord Ripon is considered the founding
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CHAPTER THREE IMPERATIVES FOR ELECTORAL REFORM 3.1 INTRODUCTION In the context of a weak electoral body‚ a perverted electoral process and undemocratic political parties‚ the stage is set for flawed elections. Thus‚ the 1999 and 2003 elections‚ like virtually all the preceding elections in Nigeria’s post-colonial history‚ were classic cases of electoral fraud. In broad terms‚ there have been two kinds of elections in Nigeria’s post-colonial history. These are the ‘transition’ and
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revenue expenditure for CCC in 2010 and in the future. I will also discuss areas of concern in terms of level of revenue expenditure and outline issues that were taken into account in the preparation of the budget for 2010. Section 102 of the Local Government Act 2001 states that each LA must prepare a draft budget for the next financial year setting out: 1. The expenditure necessary to carry out its functions and 2. The income estimated to accrue it. In 2010 the total budget income
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Background – Changes in the last 10 yrs Since 1997 central government has been pursuing an agenda of local government modernisation designed to tackle some of the fundamental public service‚ governance and accountability concerns facing local authorities and the public sector more widely. From CCT to Best Value‚ one of the biggest changes has been in performance management and the rating of authorities in relation to the CPA regime and the drive for continuous improvement and value for money. This
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Local Government has no Role to Play in Tourist Development The local Government is one of the keys to tourism development‚ a complete contradiction to that of the essay statement‚ which I believe really has no ground to stand on. In this essay I will illustrate this point by showing the roles with which local government plays within the community‚ and the importance it has to creating a successfully developed tourism product that maximises the benefits for not only the residences of the community
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past‚ present and future legislation including policies and procedures which have protected children and families and also safeguarding incidents that have changed our practice. The assignment will discuss safeguarding across the board from settings‚ local and national policies and procedures‚ what they are and how they impact on staff and the setting. Some of the policies and procedures that will be discussed are safeguarding‚ whistle blowing‚ and the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). While some of
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to what effect did local government intervene to ameliorate the adverse effects of industrialisation on the populations of towns and cities? Towns and Cities in the nineteenth century grew extremely quickly as vast numbers of people congregated in urban environment’s which were created as a response to rapid industrialisation‚ this developed problems such as poor public health. The problems that became apparent had to be dealt with and this gave rise to local governments being set up to deal
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The Pompeian’s government was a democratic system. Citizens voted in their members. There were four levels of government- Electoral assembly (comitium)‚ town council (curia)‚ chief magistrates (duumviri) and magistrates (aediles). These parties were elected in through different means and for different purposes. The electoral assembly was voted in by the Roman citizens of Pompeii. Those elected were then in charge of electing the duumviri and aediles. The town council was made up prominent citizens
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