ABSTRACT
Revenue generation is the nucleus and the path to modern development. Thus, the study assess the impact of poor revenue generation on the socio-economic development of local government areas. This is because local government as the third tier of government and the closest to the people especially in the rural areas needed revenue to provide basic social amenities to the people. But it is unfortunate to note that the local government management have not lived up to expectation especially to provide basic social amenities to the rural people. Thus, the objective of the research was to analyse the extent to which poor revenue generation has affected the development of those areas. The researcher used primary and secondary methods of data collection to generate the needed data.