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 ...

In a nation as diverse and complex as Nigeria, where the distance between the corridors of power and the grass­roots is often vast, the recent Nigeri­an Bar Association (NBA) State of the Nation ...

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 been commended for the promotion of local government autonomy in the state and the execution of developmental projects across Benue Southern Senatorial ...

Nigeria’s Supreme Court has affirmed the financial autonomy of the country’s 774 local government areas. It upheld the suit brought by the federal government to strengthen the independence of local ...

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 ...

In Turkey, the fundamental principles regarding local governments, as defined in Article 127 of the Constitution, essentially recognize the "principle of decentralization" and the "administrative ...

The emergency session followed the presentation of the motion sponsored by Sen. Tony Nwoye (LP -Anambra)and nine other lawmakers at plenary on Wednesday. Nwoye had through orders 41 and 51 of Senate ...

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 ...