ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE COMMISSION ON MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT (A CASE STUDY OF NASARAWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL, NASARAWA STATE)

The study seeks to assess the effects of local government service commission on manpower development with reference to Nasarawa State Local Government Service Commission. The specific objectives of the study is to examine the function of local government service commission on personnel administration in Nasarawa Local Government Area and to examine the various methods applied by the service commission towards achieving personnel administration in Nasarawa Local Government Area. Descriptive survey design was employed as the methodology of the study while a sample size of (100) was determined using Taro Yamane formula. Primary and secondary sources were employed in gathering data for the study while chi-square was used to analyze the collected data. The findings of the study revealed that, the local government service commission encourage manpower development in Nasarawa local government area, there are policies and programmes put in place by the service commission of manpower Nasarawa local government area towards manpower development and man development encourages the performance of staff at the local government service commission. It was therefore recommended that, the act of recruiting workers based on favouritism, nepotism, god-fatherism etc. should be avoided in order not to recruit unqualified workers who will always eat government but contribute nothing to the government so recruitment should be based on meritocracy.