This week, the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, called on President Bola Tinubu to enforce the judgement of the Supreme ...

SIR: The quest for local government autonomy in Nigeria is caused by the urgent developmental objectives; the be-all-and-end-all of which is the progressive amelioration of multi-dimensional poverty ...

NIGERIA’S greatest challenge is not the absence of natural resources or even the shortage of revenue. The country’s biggest challenge is a governance structure that has failed to empower the level of ...

Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly and served as Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...

Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has attributed the relative peace in the State to the ongoing reforms of the President ...

Activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) Omoyele Sowore has dismissed the Supreme Court's ruling on local government autonomy as ineffective. Pulse reports that ...

In July, the country’s Supreme Court ordered that federal allocations to local governments should be paid directly into their bank accounts, a break from the previous practice where states and local ...

ABUJA — Benue State Governor Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia said on Wednesday that implementation of local government autonomy in the state is sacrosanct and has reduced his burden. He urged other governors ...

Officials of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Department of Economy, Planning and ...