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 ...

Two years after the Supreme Court delivered what should have been a watershed judgment on local government financial autonomy, Nigeria is still waiting for its full implementation. That delay is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Two years after the Supreme Court ordered the direct payment of federal allocations to local government councils, ...

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) ...

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 ...

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