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 ...

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 ...

Sir: From whatever perspective one may be looking at the recently delivered judgement of the Supreme Court of Nigeria which borders on greater financial autonomy for the so long suffocated local ...

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

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 70%of Nigerians depend on primary health care (PHC) centres for healthcare. For most people, this centre is the most frequent point of contact with any government service. The local government ...

The missing link in Zimbabwe’s development agenda is a capable, empowered and development-oriented local government system.