Local government financial autonomy in Nigeria: The State Joint Local Government Account

Local government financial autonomy in Nigeria: The State Joint Local Government Account

This paper addresses the statutory financial relations and financial autonomy of local government in Nigeria, and the freedom of local government to generate revenue from its assigned sources without external interference. It focuses particularly on a financial instrument called the State Joint Loca...

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Main Author: Jude Okafor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2010-07-01
Series:Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance
Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/1621
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spelling doaj-700bb2baf4c44e2d9bc31d9ad5ad8d4d2020-11-24T23:44:01ZengUTS ePRESSCommonwealth Journal of Local Governance1836-03942010-07-01610.5130/cjlg.v0i6.16211060Local government financial autonomy in Nigeria: The State Joint Local Government AccountJude Okafor0Nnamdi Azikiwe UniversityThis paper addresses the statutory financial relations and financial autonomy of local government in Nigeria, and the freedom of local government to generate revenue from its assigned sources without external interference. It focuses particularly on a financial instrument called the State Joint Local Government Account (SJLGA) and how its operations have positively or negatively affected the financial autonomy of local government councils and the inter-relations between state and local government in Nigeria.https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/1621
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description This paper addresses the statutory financial relations and financial autonomy of local government in Nigeria, and the freedom of local government to generate revenue from its assigned sources without external interference. It focuses particularly on a financial instrument called the State Joint Local Government Account (SJLGA) and how its operations have positively or negatively affected the financial autonomy of local government councils and the inter-relations between state and local government in Nigeria.
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