•Minister of Finance, Olawale Edun The federal government has not yet commenced direct payment of monthly allocations to Nigeria’s 774 local government areas. Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, explained that the Supreme Court’s proceedings had not yet been communicated to the Attorney General of the Fe...
•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...
•Nigeria’s Supreme Court More states of the federation have affirmed dates for the conduct of local government elections in their domain. The move is seen as a bid to put the states in a good stead to evade any possible hammer in the wake of the July 11 ruling of the Supreme Court on local […]
•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...
•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 ...
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...
•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...
•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...
•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...
The Supreme Court, today, has declared that it is unconstitutional for state governors to hold onto funds meant for Local Government (LG) administrations. In its lead judgement read by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the apex court observed that the refusal of state government on financial autonomy for local governments has gone on for over two decades...
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