TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ola,Robert F.
TI  - Local administration in Nigeria
SN  - 0710300441 
U1  - 352.0669 OLA 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - London
PB  - Kegan Paul International
KW  - Local government
KW  - Nigeria
N1  - Include bibliography (p. 168-179) and  index; 1 Theoretical framework for local government performance 2 The era of indirect rule and the native authority system 3 Nigerian political elites and grassroots politics 4 The political elites and later reform efforts 5 Military elites and local government 6 The Great Reform Decree of 1976 7 Transplanting institutions into local governments 8 Whither now local government? 9 Epilogue: New political realities
N2  - First published in 1984. This work is an attempt to look into the structure of local government and the working of local administration in Nigeria in four broad eras. The periods considered are the pre-colonial, the colonial, the self- governing and the military era
ER  -