THE APPLICATION OF LOCALISTIC APPROACH IN NIGERIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT

PREFACE

This paper is a discussion of the application of the localistic approach in Nigeria local government. The localistic approach holds that the localness of local government makes it to perform its functions in the areas of citizen participation so as to ensure sustainable rural development such as noticeable in Nigeria.
This paper had been divided into three chapters; chapter one was premised on the introduction and conceptual clarification, chapter two discussed the localistic perspective while chapter three applied the localistic approach to Nigeria local government and the paper was concluded.