•Olisa Agbakoba, SAN A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has faulted the agitation for the creation of additional states in the South-East, insisting it would not solve the problem of the region. Rather than create more states, Agbakoba, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, said the National Assembly should amend th...
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...
•A class teacher Eighteen states of the federation have failed to recruit teachers in five years, data exclusively obtained by our correspondent from the National Union of Teachers in Abuja has revealed. This comes amidst the outcry over the shortage of teachers across the country, reports Sunday PUNCH. Recently, the Universal Basic Education ...
•Floods The federal government has warned that River flooding will begin by the ending of July, saying 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are likely to be severely impacted. The government also warned that continual flooding might also escalate the cholera presently ravaging some states, reports Daily Trust. As of yesterday, the...
•Governor Biodun Oyebanji The Ekiti State governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, are not against approval of a living wage for Nigerian workers. Oyebanji said the NGF was only clamouring for fiscal federalism that would culminate in the ability and capability of individual stat...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Jide Idris, has said a total of 2,102 suspected cholera cases and 63 deaths have been recorded across 33 states and 122 local government areas in the country. Idris stated this in Abuja, yesterday while giving an update on the campaign against the […]
•Nigerian pilgrims To ease financial pressure on pilgrims, who took part in the 2024 Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, the federal government and no fewer than eight states spent N100.642 billion on the pilgrims as subsidies and allowances. The 2024 Hajj lasted from June 14 to June 19, reports Vanguard. Coming at a time when no […]
•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...
Despite the federal government’s assurances that the new minimum wage will take effect from May 1, 2024, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), yesterday, said it is reviewing its individual fiscal space as state governÂments and the consequential impact of various recommendations, to arrive at an improved minimum wage they can pay sustainably. O...
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