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Supreme Court Grants Financial Independence to Local Governments

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The Supreme Court has granted financial autonomy to the 774 local government councils in Nigeria, ordering the Federal Government to immediately start direct payments to their exclusive accounts. In a landmark judgment, Justice Emmanuel Agim criticized the decades-long refusal of state governments to grant financial autonomy to local governments. He emphasized that only democratically elected […]