The 774 local governments are to open dedicated accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the direct disbursement of allocations to them from the Federation Account, the Association of Local Governments (ALGON) said yesterday. The National President, Bello Lawal Yandaki, said the opening of the account is critical to the implementation of the Supreme Court ruling on direct …

The Federal Government said yesterday that financial restrictions faced by the 774 local government councils in the country were hampering their growth. The Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Zephaniah Jisalo, made the observation at a 2-day workshop, with the theme “Local Government Administration in Nigeria: Reviewing the Trajectories, Trends and Projections in Today’s Economic and Political Realities”, organised …

The Minister of Information, Mallam Mohammed Idris, on Wednesday, said the Federal Government is on the verge of deploying officers of the National Orientation Agency across 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) nationwide. Idris, who lamented that most of the information outposts in the country are unmanned, said the move is necessary to restore consciousness of nationhood, which, he said, is …