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 ...

The bipartisan opposition to preemption of local regulations demonstrates a unified understanding of its detrimental effects. Preemption undermines local efforts, like those in numerous Indiana cities ...

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 ...

This video is no longer available. Activists took to the streets Friday afternoon, saying President Donald Trump’s administration was attacking D.C.’s local autonomy. “Hands off D.C.” was one of the ...

The passage of HF718 dealt a severe blow to local communities by abolishing local levies, depriving communities of their resource allocation autonomy. While HF2442 seems like a positive step, it fails ...

In the bill, each local government council is to create and maintain its own special account to be called Local Government Allocation Account into which all the allocations will be paid. The Senate ...

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Health Commissioners and leaders of health agencies, as well as local government administrators, in five northern states have been urged to ensure that sufficient funds are earmarked to improve child ...

The Chairman of Gombe Local Government Area, Barrister Sani Haruna, has said that granting autonomy to local governments across Nigeria would only yield meaningful results if clear priorities are set.