Key questions this article answers:
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All politics is local, but state governments often withhold local government funds, forcing grassroots governance to suffer. Will granting local government council officials full control over their revenue allocation by the government solve the problem of bad governance at the community level?
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Nigeria's local governments need the state government's house of assemblies to ratify a bill that relinquishes state control over LG funds. But was this bill a silver bullet for better governance at the grassroots?
Who is responsible for the state of Nigeria’s porous address system that makes sending stuff across the country so difficult? Or the lack of street lights that partly worsens crimes due to incessant darkness? Or waste disposal in your community?
I am sure my article’s title already gives away the answer, but what would you have said if I had asked you the above questions moments before you opened
