Enhancing Rural Development in Nigeria: Periscoping the Impediments and exploring the Imperative actions.

The rural sector of Nigeria has not witnessed significant level of development in the part 52 years of the nation’s independence. This is evidenced in the apparent lack of Basic Infrastructural facilities. This situation is so impute of the various measures or programmes that have been put in place to enhance the development of the rural sector. It is against this that the study is considered necessary and in carrying out the study we had as basic objectives, to a thoroughly examine the impediments to the realization of the rural development objectives the nation and to explore the necessary or imperative actions to enhance the development of the nations rural sector. In carrying out the study we relied mainly on secondary sources of information or data gathering and consequently adopted content analysis technique in our analysis. The basic finding are that there is noticeable de-emphasis of pro rural development policies and ineffective implement ting even the developed policies or programs to enhance the realization of the development of the rural sector, government, need to pay serious attention to developing and ensuring effective implementation of rural development policies and programs. As well, the political representatives from the various rural areas of the country need to be involved in articulatory relevant rural development programs for their constituencies and following up with effective unwitting to ensure effective implementation by government