REVENUE GENERATION CAPACITY BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF KEFFI LOCAL GOVERNMENT NASARAWA STATE)
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The community had long been identified and recognized by the government as the hub to focus on, if the whole country must experience development. In order to achieve this objective, it led to the creation of local government as the third tier of government. The local government was established to bring development to the grass root. For any project implementation, the key element is finance, so it is important to mobilize all source of revenue accruing to the local government authority, so as to record meaningful development at the grass root. Therefore, this study work specifically examines and evaluate Keffi local government in its effort towards revenue generation and expenditure in terns of development at the grass root, within 2000-2008. The major source of data is secondary data. Upon the finding, it was observed that little or no meaningful project has been embark on by the local government authority, despite the huge amount of fund. This is trace to the problem such as had leadership, corruption and misappropriation among the local government officials. Finally, this study calls for appropriate measure to restructure the local government council, so as to improve the performance of the local government and bring about growth and development at the grass root.