IMPROVING HUMAN RESOURCE CAPACITY IN THE NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
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2018-08
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
Abstract
Local government administration is at the lowest, yet most critical level of government in a
rural- dominated federation such as Nigeria .It is critical to rural and ultimately to national
development if properly managed. However, local governments in Nigeria have been
incapacitated to function effectively over the years. One of the age-long problems of this
important level of government is the ineffective use and development of the human resource
of local governments. This is why local government personnel are often perceived as
inefficient, inexperienced, unqualified, unskilled and incompetent in the performance of their
duties. It is therefore recommended in this paper that for local governments to become
vibrant and perform their responsibilities to expected standard , the process of their
recruitment, training , and development of their personnel should be strictly in line with
merit , staff development and sound personnel management practices.
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Human Resource Capacity, Local Government Administration, Service delivery, Personnel Management Practices, Autonomy