•Senator Ali Ndume Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume today, Tuesday, July 30, rejected a new office allocated to him by the Senate Services Committee. Ndume in a letter to the chairman of the Committee, Senator Sunday Karimi (APC – Kogi West), said the office which is located on the third floor of the Senate New Building […]
•Prof Odinkalu Professor of Practice in International Human Rights Law at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, Chidi Odinkalu, has said that local government allocation will still go back to state governors. Odinkalu stated this while commenting on the Supreme Court judgement on Channels TV last night. The Supreme Court had yesterday deliv...
•Ozekhome The Supreme Court judgement today, July 11, 2024, directing the Federal Government to pay allocations due to Local Government Areas directly to their account thereby abolishing the old practices of State-Local Government Joint Account,is timely and courageous. What the judgement has done is more like interpreting section 162 of the C...
•Governor Biodun Oyebanji The Ekiti State governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, are not against approval of a living wage for Nigerian workers. Oyebanji said the NGF was only clamouring for fiscal federalism that would culminate in the ability and capability of individual stat...
•Audu Ogbe Former Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, has urged the federal government to stop the payment of monthly allocations to states whose governors set up caretaker committees for Local Government (LG) administrations. “Any governor who sets up a caretaker committee should not receive any funds because a caretaker is illegal, by the S...
•Some state governors At least 24 states of the federation will not be able to pay workers salaries this year without having to wait for federal allocations from the central government, findings have revealed. Only 11 out of the 36 state governments of the federation can independently pay their workers’ salaries without depending on federal [&...
•Housing units The federal government has revoked the provisional offer of allocation of houses that elapsed between March 10, 2022 and October 18, 2023 without Expression of Interest forms. In a statement, the permanent secretary of Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, M. Mamman said that the affected subscribers are free to re-apply by...
Despite an increase in earnings in the last seven months of post-subsidy regime, and estimated allocation of N9.56 trillion from the federation account in the last five years, basic services in the local governments nationwide have remained grossly inefficient, with tell-tale signs of total neglect. Across the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs)...
•Obaseki and Shaibu The Edo State Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu, said he has made many sacrifices and suffered several oppressions for the growth and development of the state, revealing that Governor Godwin Obaseki has withheld his allocation for the last six months. Shaibu stated this while delivering his goodwill message at the laun...
•Yakubu and Tinubu The Budgetary aggregate of 40 Billion naira allocated to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has been turned down by the commission as they described the sum as grossly inadequate to fund the affairs of the electoral body. While rejecting the amount proposed by the office of Budget and National Planning of [&...
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