•Zacheous Michael (with mic) Unknown gunmen have reportedly kidnapped the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Zacheous Michael. The Police Public Relations Officer, William Ayah who confirmed the incident, said the caretaker chairman and some of his aides were abducted on Friday night along Kabba/Oke...
•Wike and Governor Fubara The Speaker Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly in Rivers State loyal to FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has called on the police to arrest persons parading themselves as the caretaker committee chairmen of the 23 local government areas in the state. The lawmakers further asked the police to immediately withdraw their ...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke Four hundred and one chairmen and members of caretaker committees running Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas in Osun State have all resigned their positions. Those that resigned include; 69 caretaker chairmen and 332 caretaker members drawn from each of the 332 wards in the state. Letters of re...
Uncertainty surrounds the fate of local government caretaker committees in 20 states of the federation following Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment that outlawed their existence. In the landmark judgment, the apex court granted local governments both administrative and fiscal autonomies, declaring that they can only be governed by democraticall...
•Governors Most states have resorted to governing the local governments through caretaker committees set up by the state government. This is contrary to Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which guarantees the system of local government by democratically elected officials, reports The Nation. Caretaker committees have become a pre...
•Caretaker committee chairman The two caretaker committee chairmen of Obio-Akpo, Chijioke Ihunwo, and Ogu-Bolu, Evans Bipi, have appointed 219 political aides for their different councils. While Bipi in a statement appointed 119 aides and committee members, Ihunwo gave appointments to 100 people in Obio-Akpor. Bipi said the aides would be swor...
•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...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa Ondo State governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has directed caretaker chairmen across the 18 Local Government Areas and the newly created 33 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of the state to obey court order and vacate their seats. The government also directed the Heads of Local Government Administration in each of the...
•Akeredolu An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, has stopped Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu from inaugurating newly appointed members of the interim management committee for the 18 local government areas and the 33 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). The appointed Interim Management Committee for the council and the LCDAs have been ...
•Hyacinth Alia The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), in Benue state has condemned the appointment of Caretaker Committees for 23 Local Government Council by Governor Hyacinth Alia saying it was in total disregard of a subsisting court order restraining the government from doing so. The party said Governor Alia’s constitution of caretaker commit...
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