This week, the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, called on President Bola Tinubu to enforce the judgement of the Supreme ...

Despite decades of local government reforms since 1976, the 1999 Constitution and political interference by state governors have left councils financially and politically dependent. While the Supreme ...

SIR: The quest for local government autonomy in Nigeria is caused by the urgent developmental objectives; the be-all-and-end-all of which is the progressive amelioration of multi-dimensional poverty ...

Governor Nwifuru's threat to LGA chairmen highlights Nigeria's local government autonomy crisis. Discover how this impacts ...

Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly and served as Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...

Activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) Omoyele Sowore has dismissed the Supreme Court's ruling on local government autonomy as ineffective. Pulse reports that ...

The Deputy National Leader (Southeast) of the Renewed Hope for Greater Nigeria (RHGN), Mazi Franklin Ngoforo, has declared that ensuring local government autonomy is one of President Bola Tinubu’s ...

The domestication of critical laws in line with the provisions of constitutional amendments by the National Assembly is yet to be fully implemented in the South-South region of Nigeria. A survey by ...

Wilson MacaulayGovernor Sheriff Oborevwori has ascribed the execution of multi-million naira projects and payment of salaries to the effective economic policies of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.​The ...