Former Labour and Employment Minister in the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Senator Chris Ngige, has said some local government chairmen are more corrupt than governors. He said some local government chairmen crave the acquisition of choice estates in Abuja, Lagos, and even abroad, at the detriment of building public health centres and schools in their areas, where teachers are owed several …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all 25 local government chairmanship seats in the Delta local government election held across the state on Saturday. The party also clinched 499 of the 500 councillorship seats, losing one to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Oshimili North Local Government Area (LGA). The chief electoral officer and chairman of Delta State Independent …

Kano State Deputy Governor, Comrade Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo has sternly warned local council staff to always be at their duty posts for effective service delivery. Gwarzo, who is also the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, gave the warning when, in the company of the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Ibrahim Muhammad Kabara, and other management staff, he paid …

Local government chairmen, vice chairmen, councillors and other top officials of the 57 councils in Lagos State will henceforth face strict monitoring to make them meet the yearnings and aspirations of their people, Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has declared. According to a statement by Media Assistant to the Speaker, Mr. Eromosele Ebhomele, Obasa …