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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has challenged state governors nationwide to fully implement local government autonomy. Alia, who declared that the constitutional provision had transformed ...