The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to hold its ward, local government, state, and zonal congresses next year. The congresses will precede the party’s national convention to be held next March. The party listed these rogrammes in the timetable and schedule of activities it released yesterday in Abuja among the programmes it lined...
•Former US Army Captain, Bishop Johnson A retired US Army Captain, Bishop Johnson, has blamed weak local government institutions for the rising insecurity in Nigeria, calling on the government to provide functional and effective governance to curb criminal activities. Johnson made the remarks today during an interview with Channels Television....
•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) has scheduled the state council election for July 12. Mr Tope Ojo, LASIEC’s Head of Public Affairs, made this announcement yesterday in Lagos, reports Saturday Vanguard. He revealed that the election for 57 council chairmanship positions and 376 councillor s...
•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...
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...
•Election The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission says it has commenced the process to conduction local government elections. This is contained in a public notice signed by the Chairman/Chief Electoral Commissioner of RSIEC, Justice Adolphus Enebeli (rtd) and sent to newsmen last night. This comes barely 24-hours after Governor Simin...
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