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 ...

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 ...

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) — 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 ...

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 ...

Learn why local governments can thrive by harnessing internally generated revenue (IGR) sources instead of relying entirely ...

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 ...