•Naira notes The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees and the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria have urged the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit to track council funds and prevent their diversion to state governors by council chairmen. Also, ALGON vowed to use the opportunity of its financial autonomy to address insecurity ...
Governors from the 36 States of the Federation under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors Forum have scheduled a crucial meeting next week to review the judgment of the Supreme Court that granted autonomy to local government councils in the country. Addressing State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chairman...
•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...
•Some governors Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State says governors will review the Supreme Court verdict that granted financial autonomy to local government councils. Soludo spoke yesterday after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja and described the verdict by the apex court as “great”, reports Channels TV. “T...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu is currently in a closed-door meeting with Vice President Kashim Shettima and some state governors in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In the meeting are the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara; Anambra State governor, Charles Soludo; Usman Ododo of Kogi and ...
•Some governors Following the Supreme Court decision declaring unlawful the use of the funds meant for local governments by the Nigeria’s 36 governors, Socio-Economic Rights And Accountability Project has called on the governors and FCT minister to account for and return the funds they have collected, or face legal action. Recall that the Supr...
•Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma The Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum and governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, today, said the Forum would partner with Ohaneze Ndigbo to industrialize the South-East zone. The governor stated this during a consultative meeting with members of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Igbo Business Leaders at ...
•Obasanjo The South East Governors, today, hosted former President Olusegun Obasanjo who paid the governors a solidarity visit while they decided to meet President Bola Tinubu to press for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Addressing the media, after over seven hours of marathon meeting, the ...
•Zainab Yakubu Niger State deputy governor, Garba Yakubu, today, lost his wife, Zainab Yakubu, in Minna, the state capital. Confirming the incident to our correspondent through a telephone call, a spokesperson for the deputy governor, Ummikaltumi Kuta, said Zainab died after a brief illness in Minna, reports Channels TV. Meanwhile, Niger State...
•Nigerian workers The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has faulted the comments credited to governors that states should determine their minimum wage in their domains. “This notion is not only dictatorial but also undermines the very essence as well as the model adopted for creating a national minimum wage in Nigeria,” the NLC said in a […...
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