E-governance and e-participation are important stages in the
advancement of government processes. They both offer great opportunities as well
as new challenges especially in Nigeria with emphasis on selected local
governments in Ogun State. E-governance is a new phenomenon in African
countries and Nigeria is fast aligning into it, with the aim of addressing many
challenges attached to development in Nigeria. Ado-Odo/Ota, Sagamu, Yewa
South, Abeokuta South and Ijebu Ode local governments function primarily along
the traditional colonial administrative system. . This study considers sectoral
aggregation of local government systems such as personnel, community
development or relations, Infrastructural needs, spatial environment, etc.
Structured and unstructured interviews will be conducted and questionnaires were
administered in order to gather data in areas of education, health, recreation,
electricity, water supply, empowerment, waste management, traffic control and
security. The formulated hypotheses were subjected to statistical validation using
multivariate regression analysis. This methodological approach enabled us
ascertain whether there exists any significance relationship between eGovernance and effective mobilization of manpower and resources considering
the selected local government areas for this study. Judgmental sampling
procedures were adequately utilized in the selected local governments which are
Ado_Odo/Ota, Sagamu, Yewa South, Ijebu Ode and Abeokuta South. These were
based on the distinguishing characteristics of selected sample observations
required for this study.