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 ...

Katsina State's commissioner confirms local governments have 100% autonomy, citing increased federal allocations from recent ...

The bold step taken by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of going to the Supreme Court of Nigeria to confirm – if, or not, state governments have the right to have direct access and control of funding that ...

Early this year, 30 Republican state house representatives sponsored HB 103, a prospective law that would grant local communities autonomy with regards to water fluoridation policy. The bill, which ...

In the bill, each local government council is to create and maintain its own special account to be called Local Government Allocation Account into which all the allocations will be paid. The Senate ...

The bipartisan opposition to preemption of local regulations demonstrates a unified understanding of its detrimental effects. Preemption undermines local efforts, like those in numerous Indiana cities ...

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Health Commissioners and leaders of health agencies, as well as local government administrators, in five northern states have been urged to ensure that sufficient funds are earmarked to improve child ...

The Chairman of Gombe Local Government Area, Barrister Sani Haruna, has said that granting autonomy to local governments across Nigeria would only yield meaningful results if clear priorities are set.