ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT; A CASE STUDY OF GWALE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA IN KANO STATE, NIGERIA

Local Government Administration is the management of local affairs through elected local executives, so as to ensure that the group meet it local needs and demands through popular participation, the study examine the roles of local government administration in rural development. The methodology of the study used population of 420 while taro yamine (1970) is used to determine the sample size as 109. Likert scale, frequency and percentage were used to analyze the research work. The result reveal that attitude of the respondent did not influence local government administration was disagree with 36.9% It means that Majority of the community members and staff of the local government cannot influence decision making in Gwale local government area of Kano State. The result also showed that majority of the respondent socioeconomic characteristics encourage local government administration which was agreed with 53.1%, which means their level of education, age, marital status can influences them to improvement in gwale local government activities. According to their socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents discourage local government administration, the percentage score of respondent is 48.5% which means majority of them did not agreed that their socio economic status can discourage local government administration decision making process and project execution. Again the result socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents promote local government administration Majority of the respondents agreed with 41.8% that their socio economic factors can promote local government administration activities.Constraints associated with factors affecting Administration of local government on rural development. The result of the finding suggests that the (6) variables used, (5) were positive and no respondent in (1) of the variable, the most challenging issues confronting the Administration of local government on rural development is insufficient fund affect project development with 97.7 percent due to shortage of sources of fund available to local government areas, Bureaucratic process affect development project constitute 93 percent while political differences affect project development and poor management affect community Development project is 88.4 percent respectively. Finally, corruption affect community development is the least with 52.3 percentage because most of the local government project which are feeder roads or street light, construction of culvert, renovation of schools, provision of health facilities and financial assistance to the community are affected by the aforementioned factors in Gwale local government area.The study recommends that: More concerted efforts should be made toward development of rural areas. These should include increase in budget allocation, effective policy implementation and completion. Corruption and mismanagement of resources should also be discouraged by punishing officials engaged in associated corrupt cats and blocking channels of diverting resources through effective budget planning and monitoring