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 …