The Nigerian Supreme Court has, in a landslide judgement on local government autonomy, ordered that the four-year tenure enjoyed by executives be extended to the offices of all local government area (LGA) chairmen and councillors across the country. This is contained in the Certified True Copy (CTC) of a judgement delivered by Justice Mohammed Garba and six other Justices on May 11, 2024. According to Garba, some States have, by their various illegal actions, starved the local government councils in their States to the extent that most of them cannot…
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