The Lagos state local government election has commenced across the councils in the commercial city of NigeriaAccording to records, 139 candidates in no less than 10 political parties are running for ...

Seme Border Command, has clarified why it did not close the border during the recently conducted Lagos State local government elections.Comptroller Abdullahi Adamu, head of the Seme Border operations, ...

Less than 1% of Nigeria’s 774 local governments have functional websites. This means citizens have no way of knowing how much is allocated, what is being spent, and who is being paid.

Nigeria: Residual Powers Must Return To Federating Units, Says Adedeji. 30 November 2000. This Day (Lagos) By Steve Nwosu and Wale Olaleye. ... local government or zone ...

Not too many judicial interventions have been, and will ever be as consequential as the July 11, 2024, Supreme Court ruling on the Local Government (LG) autonomy litigation, filed in May 2024, by ...

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 ...

And that tells you the nonsense or the meaninglessness of VPs saying local government autonomy is their way of performing the federal ... Nigeria can only work if we devolve power – Adamolekun .

Decades of underinvestment in Nigeria’s power supply mean it has not kept pace with the country’s growth. More than 90m of its 230m people live without access to electricity, the highest ...

These local players, signal a new phase for Nigeria's oil and gas sector and could provide support for the government's plan to raise oil output by additional 1 million barrels per day (bpd) next ...

At least 44 people have been killed in separate attacks in recent days in central Nigeria, a local government official said on Tuesday, ... The attacks occurred in three villages between Friday and ...

In July 2024, Nigeria’s Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment affirming the financial autonomy of local governments. The ruling mandates that LG allocations from the federation account be ...