Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

The objective of the research study was to assess the contributions of community leadership in the provision of social infrastructure in rural areas of Katsina State, Northern Nigeria. The methodology employed by the research is triangulation method in which quantitative and qualitative instruments were both used. Data collected was mainly based on primary and secondary sources.The total sample size employed by the research study was 384 respondents. Some of the findings of the research study indicated that social infrastructure is a significant predictor of community leadership with 0.000 which is less than the sig value of 0.05. Some of the recommendations of the research study include effort should be made by both government and development partners to sustain the tempo (community leadership) by encouraging people at the grassroots level to continue collaboration with local community leadership so that team work can be achieve. Rewards can be provided by the government and development partners through traditional institutions. Awareness should be encouraged among rural populace on the need to participate at all level to develop their rural area through collaboration with local community leadership.