A comprehensive audit report has uncovered significant financial irregularities within the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), totaling over N100 billion. The report, which scrutinizes the fiscal management of the councils, points to systemic failures in accounting, unauthorized expenditures, and a widespread lack of supporting documentation for high-value transactions. This indictment comes […]
Peter Fowoyo A Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on Friday dismissed a suit filed against the recent held election into 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state, for lacking in merit. Justice Akintayo Aluko, in a judgment to the suit filed by the Plaintiffs and the Lagos State […]
Tom Okpe, Abuja Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase has revealed that security and infrastructure challenges facing the country can only be solved through the installation of functional and viral working local government systems. Wase made this revelation in Abuja on Thursday while declaring to open a leadership training programme for some elected local […]
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state has attributed the inability of his administration to conduct the local government election as promised, to the coronavirus pandemic. Bala stated this on Sunday during the swearing-in ceremony of four caretaker committee chairmen of Darazo, Kirfi, Tafawa Balewa and Ningi Local Government Areas of the state. He said his […]
The President of Chartered Institute of Local Government and Public Administration of Nigeria , Prof Kunle Awotokun said local governments must be ready for accountability, if granted autonomy. Speaking during their 12th Annual Conference themed : “Local government autonomy as the bedrock of rural development.” Prof. Awotokun said State Governments have abused the joint account […]
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has distributed a total of N788.139 billion to the Federal Government, State Governments and Local Government Councils for the month of October, 2018. The communiqué issued by the Technical Sub -Committee FAAC at the end of the special session held in Kaduna, after the 2018 National Council on Finance […]
Not a few people were surprised, when young Hon. Gbenga Abiola was appointed as the Sole Administrator of Agege Local Government in 2016 by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, based on the recommendations of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa. Having served his time out and […]
*NEITI: 3 tiers of govt shared N6.41trn in 2017 The Federation Account Allocation Committee ( FAAC) has distributed N635.554billion to the Federal Government, 36 States and Local Government Areas as allocation for January 2018. The development showed a decline of about N20billion as the three tiers of government shared N655billion in December 2017. The FAAC […]
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has won in all the 16 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Ekiti State in Saturday’s election into Chairmanship and Councillorship seats keenly contested for by five political parties in the state. The parties included Action Democratic Party, (ADP), National Democratic Liberty Party, (NDLP), Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), People’s Party of […]
No fewer than 900 residents of Peremabiri Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, who fled after the 2015 governorship election violence in the state have returned home. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the displaced persons returned to the community on Monday in more than 10 passenger-boats to the […]
The Edo State Government is to establish a job centre in each of the 18 local government areas of the state and equip job seekers with new skills required for the jobs being created in the state. The Commissioner for Wealth Creation, Cooperatives and Employment, Hon. Emmanuel Usoh, said this at Government House in Benin […]
….Okowa says no discrimination against decampees Ahead of the 2018 Local Government Elections and the 2019 general elections, over 5,000 All Peoples Congress [APC] members at the weekend in Orogun, Ughelli North Local Government Area and home of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa assuring […]
Prominent opposition political parties in Gombe state, led by the All Progressives Congress (APC) said it will reject whatever is the outcome of Saturday’s Local Government election in the state for what they described, mess of the exercise. A statement signed by APC Caretaker committee chairman Hon. Idi Barde Gubana, on behalf of other political […]