Local Government as an Instrument of Rural Transformation (A Case Study of Ilorin East Local Government)

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page

Certification

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Table of content

CHAPTER ONE

1.0    General introduction or background of the study

1.1    Introduction

1.2    Statement of the study

1.3    Purpose / objective of the study

1.4    Significant of the study

1.5    Research of the study

1.6    Scope and limitation of the study

1.7    Organization of the study / plan of the study

1.8    Definition of terms or operational terms

CHAPTER TWO

2.0    Literature review

2.1    Introduction

2.2    Theoretical fame work

2.3    Current trend in thinking

2.4    Summary of chapter

         References

CHAPTER THREE

3.0    Methodology / research method

3.1    Introduction

3.2    Sample and population of the study

3.3    Sources of data / data collection instrument

3.4    Method of data analysis

3.5    Research problem

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0    Data presentation / analysis and interpretation findings

 4.1  Introduction

4.2    Brief history of the case study

4.3    Presentation of data

4.4    Analysis of the data

4.5    Testing of hypothesis

4.6    Summary of the chapter

         References

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0    Summary of recommendation and conclusion

5.1    Summary of findings

5.2    Recommendation

5.3    Conclusion

         Bibliography

CHAPTER ONE

1.0   INTRODUCTION

1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

         Rural development is one of the arms of the ministry of social welfare in the formal northern Nigeria government. It was under ministry of education and community development when kwara state was created in 1967 after about a year, the kwara state government removed local government community development from education and also removed local government section from governor’s office and emerged the two together to become one ministry known as ministry of local government and community development in the year 1969. (Rural development section was under this ministry). Presently, ministry of rural development now exist. At its inception, kwara state comprised of two provinces, namely kabba and Ilorin. The arrangement of rural development activities was based on provisional administration, but at the end of 1968, divisional administration was created. Among the division created form the provinces were Igbomina / Ekiti, Ilorin, kabba, kogi etc.