Before the 1976 reforms, the three-tier local government system was practiced by
Before the 1976 Local Government Reforms, Nigeria did not have a uniform local government system. The three-tier system (i.e., dividing local administration into levels such as county/district/area authorities depending on region) was mainly practised in the:
These two regions had more developed hierarchical local governance structures. The East did not have these local governance structures as a result of their decentralised pre-colonial history.
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