local government

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has welcomed the Supreme Court’s judgment affirming fiscal autonomy for local government councils across Nigeria. In a statement released on Thursday via X, Atiku described the ruling as “a win…

Ambali Olatunji, the national president of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, proposed on Monday that workers' salaries be increased by 300% to mitigate the effects of the loss of fuel subsidies. Olatunji also advocated…

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rescheduled the postponed 15 bye-elections in 11 states to hold December 5. The electoral commission indefinitely suspended the bye-elections in Lagos, Bayelsa, Imo and Cross River…

Lagos State government has decentralised the testing centres for coronavirus, releasing list of new testing centres across 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the state. The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Health,…

A former chairman of Orolu Local Government Area of Osun state, Chief Rufus Woleola Ojo was today convicted and sentenced d to 6 years imprisonment for corruption. The convict who was prosecuted at the Osun State High Court, Ede by the…

Details have emerged about late Chudi Julius Chinwuba (a.k.a) Tallest, who was hacked to death on November 15, by persons suspected to be his kinsmen, with whom he had been having a protracted feud. After he was brutally murdered, his…