•Tinubu, Shettima and state governors President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied speculations making the rounds that he is at war with state governors over his push for local government autonomy across the country. In July 2024, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgement affirming financial autonomy for the 774 local government areas in the ...
•Abbas Tajudeen The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajuddeen has reiterated that lack of autonomy, corruption, inadequate funding, among others constitute significant challenges to the effectiveness of local governments. He stated this in an opening remark at the ‘National Dialogue on Local Government and Constitution Amendment...
•Soludo Anambra State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has declared that absolute autonomy for local government areas in Nigeria is an impossibility, arguing that it would lead to chaos. His remarks came after he signed into law the recently passed Local Government Administration Law in Awka, reports Vanguard. Governor Soludo contended tha...
Local government workers in some of the states yet to conduct council elections by yesterday are now living in fear of the possible suspension of allocation to their councils from the federation account. The Supreme Court had in a recent ruling granted the local government financial autonomy and specifically ordered that the councils’ share of...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today asked state and local governments to immediately comply with the Supreme Court judgement, particularly relating to local government accounts and the funds given directly to them. The Senate also resolved to take immediate steps to alter sections of the Constitution to give full autonomy to local government adm...
Nigerian workers, under the umbrella of the Organised Labour comprising the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, and Nigerian Union of Pensioners, NUP, have proposed a staff redistribution, placement and auditing exercise, to ascertain the actual numbers of local government workers, primary school...
•The Federal Executive Council The federal government and state governors may have agreed to a three-month moratorium on Local Government autonomy, over concerns arising from its impact on salary payments and operational viability. The development means Local Governments may wait till October before the implementation of the law in the direct ...
•Fayemi Former Governor of Ekiti State and ex-Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Kayode Fayemi, has described local government autonomy as a misnomer and aberration in a federal system of government. Fayemi, an academic and a former Nigeria’s Minister of Mines and Steel Development, spoke at the launch of St. Racheal’s People Cons...
•Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose Former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, has expressed concern over Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment affirming local governments’ right to receive monthly allocations directly from the federation account. The chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party emphasised that despite the court judgment, stat...
•Femi Falana, SAN A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights activist, Femi Falana has called on Nigerians, to be prepared to monitor the activities of the local government officials in the wake of the judgment by the Supreme Court. The apex court had yesterday in its lead judgment read by Justice Emmanuel Agim, mandated […]
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