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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Abdul Adamu Fagge, has submitted a strategic memorandum to the Constitution Review Committee, calling for urgent reforms to guarantee the financial independence of Nigeria’s 774 local government areas. …
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Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has suspended the State’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Hon. Samson Osagie, and the chairman of the State’s Local Government Service Commission, Hon. Damian Lawani, over alleged “grave…
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In the ongoing Kano State local government elections, prominent political figures including Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso exercised their civic duty by casting their votes. SolaceBase reports that…
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A coalition of civil society organizations, Citizens for Development and Education (CDE) and the Organization for Community Civic Engagement (OCCEN) have raised serious concerns over the judiciary's role in attempting to truncate local…
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The New Nigeria Peoples Party(NNPP) in Kano State has given up until the end of this month to all the aspiring Caretaker Chairmen and Councillors in the 44 local governments to resign. ”Those of them wishing to contest in the…
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The Rivers State House of Assembly, at its 159th Legislative sitting on Monday, passed the Rivers State Local Government (Amendment) Bill into law by overriding the assent of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. It could be recalled that the…
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The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed the early Wednesday’s fire that gutted 17 offices in Gwale Local Government Secretariat. The Public Relations Officer of the service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, confirmed the incident to the News…
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By Ben Aroh Retired local government workers and their primary school counterparts in Enugu State are being owed about twenty months’ arrears of pensions. Their gratuities were last paid in 2005. This report interrogates their plights,…
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Bauchi State Governor, Bala Abdulkadir Muhammed, has approved the dissolution of all the Local Government Caretaker Committees of the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the state with immediate effect. A statement announcing the…
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Tragedy has struck in Akure North local government area of Ondo state, following the death of the chairman and his vice within a week. The council boss, Ogbesetore Bankole died last week after a brief illness and his vice stepped in.…
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