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 ...

Despite decades of local government reforms since 1976, the 1999 Constitution and political interference by state governors have left councils financially and politically dependent. While the Supreme ...

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 ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Rural Development, Mr Bolaji Robert, has reiterated that local government areas, LGAs, in the state have been operating with ...

Nepal’s transition from a unitary to a federal system of governance, characterised by decentralised decision-making and local autonomy, has presented teething problems. The mechanism for allocating ...