Consultative session calls for stronger constitutional, administrative and financial autonomy for local governments.

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) situation Room and the Citizens Centre for Integrated Development and Social Rights ...

The bipartisan opposition to preemption of local regulations demonstrates a unified understanding of its detrimental effects. Preemption undermines local efforts, like those in numerous Indiana cities ...

Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has dismissed concerns that the implementation of local government autonomy poses a threat to governance. He insisted that his administration has already ...

SIR: The quest for local government autonomy in Nigeria is caused by the urgent developmental objectives; the be-all-and-end-all of which is the progressive amelioration of multi-dimensional poverty ...

For managers overseeing teams across multiple countries, striking the right balance between global consistency and local autonomy can determine whether your team feels aligned or alienated. It ...

Sir: It’s a popular belief that the development of any nation in the world starts right from the basic level. No nation can confidently boast of accelerated advancement without the impact of the ...

This video is no longer available. Activists took to the streets Friday afternoon, saying President Donald Trump’s administration was attacking D.C.’s local autonomy. “Hands off D.C.” was one of the ...

In the bill, each local government council is to create and maintain its own special account to be called Local Government Allocation Account into which all the allocations will be paid. The Senate ...

The passage of HF718 dealt a severe blow to local communities by abolishing local levies, depriving communities of their resource allocation autonomy. While HF2442 seems like a positive step, it fails ...

There is a growing desire for autonomy at the third tier of government and a mounting debate over the propriety of the idea. There has been a sustained argument that the 774 local government areas, ...