The paper is a critical examination of rural development programmes and the challenge of
rural underdevelopment in Nigeria. It emphasizes the need for a paradigm shift in the …

Nigeria is a country blessed with abundant human and material resources. Pre-independent
Nigeria had agriculture as the major foreign exchange and revenue earner. Other alternative …

The focus of this study is on local government autonomy and grassroots development in
south East, Nigeria. The apparent inability of the many local government councils throughout …

States increasingly seek to optimize the utilization of scarce water resources as a catalyst for
rural development. Successive governments in Nigeria have been laying greater emphasis …

This paper proposes that the starting point of project formulation targeted at socio-economic
development of rural women, should be an attempt to understand the current perspective of …

This study examines the role of the local government in rural development. Nigeria today is
in dire need of employment opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths who have …

This study assessed the nexus between agricultural cooperative and rural poverty reduction
in Anambra State. The study utilised primary data, which were extracted from the …