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 ...

Former Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, has described the idea of full autonomy for local governments in the country as unrealistic, citing constitutional limitations ...

In delivering the keynote address at the just concluded 2025 National Summit of the Local Government Service Commissions (LGSCs), I was compelled to observe the significance of the Summit coming on ...

President Bola Tinubu, has said that his administration is in no battle with state governors over the controversial local government autonomy. Tinubu made this known on Wednesday, while addressing ...

Dr Alex Izinyon, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has sharply criticised the National Assembly for failing to enact legislation that would enforce the Supreme Court's rulings on local government ...

Nigerians’ reactions to the development indicated that the development was a welcome idea, but Fayose does not share this sentiment. On Thursday, July 11, 2024, the apex court ordered the Federal ...

This quiet is striking given Tinubu’s political history. As governor of Lagos State under the Alliance for Democracy in the early Fourth Republic, he was among the most vocal advocates of ...

For a country as vast and diverse as Nigeria, effective governance cannot be centralised alone. It is a fact that the promise of development reaching every village, ward and community rests heavily on ...

The Trump administration recently announced a major shift to the scoring rubric for the federal government’s main source of homeless aid—the Continuum of Care program—which annually distributes $3.9 ...

Local Government Fiscal Management encompasses the strategies and mechanisms through which sub‐national governments plan, allocate, and control public funds. This area of research investigates how ...