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 ...

The National Assembly has unveiled 37 prioritised constitutional amendment bills as part of the ongoing review of the 1999 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Senate Wednesday went into an emergency closed-door session over a motion to enforce financial autonomy for the 774 Local Government Councils, given the pronouncement of the Supreme Court. The ...

NIGERIA’S latest attempt to deepen federalism through judicial fiat is proving to be motion without movement. Specifically, the Supreme Court judgement granting fiscal and political autonomy to the ...