This study was focused on motivating local government employees for efficient performance in Enugu State, Nigeria. Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory was used as the theoretical framework for this study. The objective of this study was to identify how local government employees are motivated for efficient performance. The work raised one research question to address the objective of the study; what are the motivation practices in local governments in Enugu state, Nigeria. Both primary and secondary sources of data collection were used for the study. The random sampling technique was adopted to select the local governments as well as the respondents. Likert type scale was used to generate data. Mean score statistic was used to analyze the data. The result of this study indicated that local governments: pay their employees’ salaries promptly, and that job security is assured. The result also showed that local governments do not provide: training opportunity, annual salary increment, good working conditions, financial and nonfinancial bonuses; and that: outstanding performance is not recognized, government business is contracted out, employees are excluded from decision making, and employees are not given one day off duty. Based on our findings, we recommend that local governments should; be granting employees training opportunity, various allowances; and that local governments should stop contracting out their businesses.