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 ...

Local government autonomy has been a recurring subject in public discourse over the years. The 8th National Assembly has passed the bill and President Muhammadu Buhari is willing to assent to it, if ...

On Thursday, the 3rd of April, the ICPC, alongside its technical partner, the Center for Fiscal Transparency and Public Integrity (CeFTPI) will be launching the ACPPLG, and it is time all stakeholders ...

Korea has evolved in its government structure to include local autonomy. Since 1995, there have been provisions for local governments in major cities, other cities, their districts, and neighborhoods, ...

Former Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, has described the idea of full autonomy for local governments in the country as unrealistic, citing constitutional limitations ...

Local government autonomy in Nigeria has extensively been one of the most debated issues in the country’s federal system. The Local Government (LG) tier is constitutionally recognized under Section ...

Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has dismissed concerns that the implementation of local government autonomy poses a threat to governance. He insisted that his administration has already ...

For nearly half a century, Nigeria has wrestled with the promise and frustration of local government autonomy. Before the 1976 reforms, councils functioned largely as administrative appendages of ...