•Electricity States and councils will henceforth share the payment of electricity subsidies with the federal government, which had solely borne the subsidy cost on electricity. In 12 months between September 2024 and October 2025, the federal government paid N1.98 trillion. Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Tanimu Yakubu...
Crisis is brewing within the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress ahead of the July 12 local government elections, as many chairmanship aspirants and party leaders have kicked against what they described as a plot to impose candidates. The aggrieved members and leaders, drawn from various local government areas and local counci...
•FCT The traditional ruler of Karshi chiefdom in Abuja, His Royal Highness Alhaji Isma’ila Mohammed, has called for urgent constitutional reforms to grant the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) greater senatorial representation and additional area councils. He argued that, despite the FCT’s large population and vast landmass, its political repres...
•Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo The crisis in the Edo State local government councils took a different dimension yesterday. Several persons were wounded as gunmen allegedly invaded the Uhunmwode Local Government Council headquarters in Egor, reports Channels TV. The chairman of the council, Kenneth Adodo, alleged that the people involved ...
•Naira notes Barring any last-minute change of plan, councils will begin to get direct allocation from the Federation Account next month (January). It will begin with the disbursement of this month’s allocation to the tiers of government, a source told our correspondent at the weekend. The direct receipt from the Federation Account Allocation ...
•Governor Fubara Former Local Government Chairmen in Rivers State have accused Governor Siminalyi Fubara of supporting illegality by continuing to support the illegal Caretaker Committee Chairmen’s stay in office despite a Supreme Court judgement nullifying them. In a press briefing in Port Harcourt yesterday, the former chairmen called on the...
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has approved the inauguration of new Governorship Election National Campaign Councils ahead of the Edo and Ondo states elections. The inauguration is set to take place tomorrow, Thursday, June 27, with plans to ensure victory in the upcoming elections. This was disclosed in a state...
•Abass, Agbese and Ochefu For Vice Chancellors of public universities in Nigeria, one of the major hurdles they grapple with is having to shuttle between their institutions and the nation’s capital on a weekly or biweekly basis to answer questions from politicians in the National Assembly. This is even as the National Assembly has halted [&hel...
•Governor Yusuf The Forty-four Local Government Areas of Kano State have dragged the state government before a Federal High Court in Abuja over moves by the state government to use their allocations to jointly finance a N27 billion interchange projects in the state capital. Listed also as defendants in the suit that is currently before [&helli...
Local governments will soon be on the front burner of the war against graft by the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The commission has signalled its desire to “buy in” people at the grassroots to achieve its desire to fight corruption, especially in the councils. EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede revealed this [&hel...
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