Local Government

Top 5 Stories Of The Day | “Buhari’s naira design was different from Emefiele’s design,” Ex-acting CBN Governor Says

October 3, 2024

Top 5 Stories Of The Day | “Buhari’s naira design was different from Emefiele’s design,” Ex-acting CBN Governor Says

Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the five top Nigerian news stories you shouldn’t miss. “Buhari’s naira design was different from Emefiele’s design,” ex-acting CBN governor says The previous acting-Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Folashodun Shonubi, a witness in the trial of disgraced CBN governor Godwin Emefiele,... Read More

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December 20, 2017

Ekiti LG chairmen sue AGF, 36 governors over $1bn security fund

Chairmen of the 16 Local Government Areas in Ekiti have sued the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and governors of the 36 states over the approval of $1bn from the Excess Crude Account for anti-terrorism fight. Background: Governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose had earlier disagreed with the decision, threatening to... Read More

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December 4, 2017

Atiku can’t win any election even in his own local govt – Buhari’s aide

Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Lauretta Onochie has said former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar does not have the popularity to win in his own local government. Onochie said this while speaking on Politics Today on Channels TV. Background: Atiku had resigned from the party, stating that it was dying. The former Vice-President was... Read More

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Lagos

[The Alausa Blog]: LASIEC releases list of candidates for LG/LCDA elections

The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) has released the list of validated candidates for the Chairmanship and Councillorship elections into the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas of the State scheduled for Saturday, 22nd July 2017. In line with its statutory responsibilities, the Commission had requested all the candidates, whose names... Read More

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elections, Electoral commission, lagos, LASIEC, Local Government

More illiterates will be bred if LG handle education – NUT

by Omoleye Omoruyi The Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT), has said that it will breed more illiterates than illiterates, should federal government hands over primary education to Local government council. This was made known to journalists by the president of the association, Micheal Olukoya, during a workshop in Abuja. Olukoya made the assertion remembering members killed... Read More

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October 19, 2016

Opinion: Eyitayo Jegede and the vision of a “Greater Ondo Together”

by Jude Ndukwe The great Ondo State is at another threshold of history. The state which is generally accepted as one of the truly few progressing states in Nigeria will have one of the greatest tests of its existence come November 26, 2016, when the people are expected to vote for a new governor that... Read More

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October 12, 2016

State governors steal LG funds – Obasanjo

Former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has accused state governors of incapacitating local governments. He made the remark on Tuesday during an interactive session shortly after delivering his keynote address at the maiden International Conference on Politics, Security and Development held at the Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State. He said the governors “steal” the funds under the... Read More

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Ambode fires all 57 of Fashola’s caretaker committee

Governor of Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode has disbanded the Caretaker Committees of the 57 Local Government Councils and Local Council Development Areas across the state. The Caretaker Committees were on January 5, 2015 formed by former governor of the state, Babatunde Raji Fashola and Executive Secretaries were placed in charge. Following the dissolution of the... Read More

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Kemi-Adeosun-YNaija

The money the FG and states just shared is much smaller than last month’s

The Federal Government, State Governments and Local Government Councils will share N207.878 billion as Federal allocation for the month of April, 2016 with the Federal Government taking 52.68%, states 26.72% while local governments take 20.60% while a statutory 13% goes to oil producing states as derivation. The allocation was revealed in a communique released by... Read More

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Opinion: Local government as a catalyst of change

We’re in the season of change. For the first time in Nigeria’s history, the voice of the people resonated loudly at the polls when the then opposition party APC was voted into power. It was a defining moment for our nation when the ever-resilient Nigerian people stamped their feet and declared that enough is enough... Read More

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February 19, 2016

LG chairman, in Ebonyi, suspended for demolishing Christ Embassy church

The caretaker committee chairman of Ikwo Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, Joseph Orogwu, has been suspended by the state governor, David Umahi. Orogwu was suspended because of his alleged involvement in the demolition of a Believers Love World INC aka Christ Embassy Church in front of the newly established Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ikwo... Read More

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November 27, 2015

“Boko Haram controls only ‘one’ local government” – Borno Speaker

Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, has revealed that Islamic terrorists sect, Boko Haram, is in control of only one local government in the state. Lawan disclosed that the Nigerian Army has liberated 19 out of the 20 local government areas previously occupied by the deadly insurgents. Speaking at the Conference of... Read More

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November 24, 2015

A month after, Kogi governor heeds Appeal Court ruling on LG Chairmen

Kogi state governor, Capt Idris Wada has reinstated the state Council Chairmen that were sacked by the order of a High Court in Kotonkarfe last year. The governor’s decision is in accordance to the ruling of the Court of Appeal ruling which ordered their immediate reinstatement. The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties had dragged the... Read More

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January 24, 2014

Tunde Leye: The primary schools in Lagos are in a very sorry state

by Tunde Leye I live in Lagos, and so cannot speak for the rest of the country. But here in Lagos, most of the government run primary schools are no better than rundown buildings which stand precariously on the edge of collapsing. It is said that the people think of today while it is the... Read More

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September 3, 2013

LG vice-chairman, 2 others arrested for rape, robbery in Ebonyi

by ‘Jola Sotubo Three suspected criminals were yesterday arrested by men of the Ebonyi State Police Command for allegedly perpetrating crimes of robbery and rape. One of the suspects was identified as a deputy chairman of a Local Government Area in the state. The development was revealed yesterday to newsmen in Abakaliki, the state capital,... Read More

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Salihu Tanko Yakasai: Local government autonomy – Let’s scrap the Senate (Y! Politico)

by Salihu Tanko Yakasai The Governors and their collaborators in the senate hide behind “corruption” to not grant these local governments autonomy, how pathetic!!! Who are the biggest and most corrupt office holders in the land if not these Governors and these Senators?…. Once again, our senators have added yet another reason for us to... Read More

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Chido Onumah: A case for true federalism

by Chido Onumah It is this unregulated power that has created the twisted logic that makes it possible, for example, for Kano to have 44 local governments while Lagos has 20 local governments… it is retrogressive to dictate the number of local governments states should have. No topic has generated as much interest in the... Read More

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Opinion: Transformation Agenda – We have so far failed in politics and economics

by Adisa Adeleye A glaring weakness of the economic transformation programme is its stubborn reliance on paper growth based on the mortal fear of rising prices. Of what is the worth of a rise in the rate of GDP and mass unemployment or as President Jonathan noted on the statistical figures that don‘t translate into... Read More

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Opinion: LG Autonomy- A necessity for sustainable democracy

by Ahmed Kaita The problem of governance, particularly at the local level has been a recurring decimal in the political history of Nigeria. It was heart warming seeing the resolve by the lower chambers of the National Assembly to restore some sanity in local government administration in Nigeria. Interestingly, the over bearing presence/influence of governors... Read More

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November 23, 2012

PDP floors ACN (again) in Lagos as tribunal declares Busari Akande winner of LG poll

by Isi Esene The Local Government Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lagos yesterday declared the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Busari Akande, as the validly elected chairman of Agbado Oke-odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the state. The Tribunal declared invalid the Certificate of Return earlier issued to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate,... Read More

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August 16, 2012

It wasn’t Boko Haram – Kogi police commissioner speaks on Deeper Life Church attack

by Akan Ido The Kogi State commissioner of Police, Mohammadu Katsina, and the former chairman of DAAR Communications, Mr. Tom Adaba, have absolved the militant group, Boko Haram, from the attack which recently took place at a Deeper Life Bible Church at Otite, near Okene, which claimed 20 lives. Adaba viewed the attack as the... Read More

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