Some experts and civil servants in Kaduna, Kano, and Katsina States in North-west Nigeria have welcomed the recent autonomy granted to local governments, describing it as a new dawn for them.
A Supreme Court judgement recently stopped the State and Local Government Joint Account and granted autonomy to the country’s 774 LGAs.
A professor at the Faculty of Law, Bayero University, Kano, and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mamman Lawan-Yusufari, said the judgement would improve…
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