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 ...

Local government autonomy, widely hailed as a landmark reform for strengthening grassroots governance, is now facing growing frustration as the Supreme Court ruling meant to enforce it continues to ...

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 ...

Hon. Kamorudeen Mudasiru is the chairman of Lagelu local government area of Oyo State. In this interview with YINKA OLADOYINBO, he speaks about local government administration, the controversial ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Voting for the first phase of a staggered election to choose a local government concluded Wednesday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the first such vote since Prime Minister ...

Local government reset must bring the Constitution home. 12 May 2026. The FW de Klerk Foundation notes the publication of the ...

He said the lack of financial and administrative autonomy for the local government had affected the performance of the third tier of government. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th ...

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 ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A three-phased election for choosing a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir opened Wednesday in the first such vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government ...

This video is no longer available. Activists took to the streets Friday afternoon, saying President Donald Trump’s administration was attacking D.C.’s local autonomy. “Hands off D.C.” was one of the ...