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    State-Local Government Relations, Governance and Development in Nigeria: A Case Study of Abeokuta North Local Government in Ogun State
    (SAAPAM, 2022-06-01) Badaru, Kazeem A 0000-0002-3372-8220
    This study investigated the nature of andnexus between state-local government rela-tions, governance as well as development inOgun State, Nigeria. A sample of 213 staffof Abeokuta North Local Government wasselected for the quantitative data using thestratified random sampling techniques, while15 other political stakeholders of AbeokutaNorth LG were interviewed to yield thequalitative data. The quantitative data wasanalysed using the SPSS statistics softwarewhile the qualitative data was analysed the-matically using the NVivo software. Resultsshowed that local government councils andstate government (Mean = 2.62) were in amaster-servant type of relationship, also, apositive correlation was found between thestate-local government relations and grass-roots development (Mean = 3.25) and, thatthese relations positively affected develop-ment (Mean = 2.77) in Abeokuta North LG,in particular, and Ogun State, as a whole.Thus, the study concludes that state-localgovernment relations tend to impinge on gov-ernance and development at the grassrootslevel in Nigeria. It, therefore, recommendsthat the controversies surrounding the posi-tion of the local government in the 1999Constitution (as amended) be resolved with-out any further delay; otherwise, the desirefor much more autonomy and developmentat the grassroots level would continue to bea mirage in Nigeria.