WHEN in July 2024, the Supreme Court gave a ruling that effectively granted financial autonomy to the 774 local government…
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SINCE the Supreme Court judgment granting autonomy to local governments and ordering states to organise elections, there has been confusion…
THE 774 local governments are to open dedicated accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the direct disbursement…
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has cautioned against the violation of the…
WHEN the Supreme Court delivered its landmark judgment on financial autonomy for the 774 Local Governments (LGs) in July 2024,…
DR Musa Aliyu, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, says the commission will ensure…
GOVERNORS have been acting tongue-in-cheek in their reactions to last Thursday’s verdict of the Supreme Court, which stripped them of…
THE Supreme Court judgement on July 11, granting financial autonomy to the 774 local councils and recognising them as the…
LAST week, Nigeria’s Supreme Court took a fundamental step towards dismantling the grip of state governors on the local government(LG)…
THE Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the Governor of Kwara State Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq says the Supreme Court verdict…
NIGERIA’s relegated third tier of government, the Local Government administration, got a boost on Thursday when the Supreme Court made…