SUPREME COURT TO GIVE JUDGEMENT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY TODAY
The Supreme Court of Nigeria will on Thursday decide whether local government councils in the country will begin to operate as a fully independent entity or remain as an appendage of state governors. Although Nigeria operates a three-tier system of government; federal, state and local governments, over the years the local governments seemed to have been subsumed into the state governments, with the states allegedly taking over the management of […]