THE EFFECT OF JOINT ACCOUNT POLICY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NASSARAWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT

ABSTRACT The study has examined the impact of intergovernmental relations and local government of Nassarawa, Kano state in Nigeria. One outstanding issue in this relationship is that the Nigeria constitution confers on the state, the legal existence and as a result the local government are state creation through laws passed by the various housed of assembly within the context if the 1999 and 2011 Nigeria constitution as amended, section 7 (2) which provide that the system of local government by democratically elected local government council is under this constitution and according , the government of every state shall ensure their existence, under the law which proved for the establishment structure compotation finance and functions of such council. The study recommended that state interferences on local government administration should be minimize to be only on special occasion in order to allow them carry out their statutory functions. It also recommended that the tenure of local government chairman should be made inline with the state governors tenures in order to have uniformity in the IGR system.