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The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu has re-echoed his earlier call for
LASG is on the right track with the proposed electricity policy and we applaud the State government for this pioneering effort to decentralise and democratise the supply of electricity to Lagosians. Other States should emulate the LASG electricity policy and start to fashion out their own electricity policies and state electricity laws. This is what we’ve termed “Energy Federalism”. The Lagos State government recently released a consultation paper on the Lagos State Electricity Policy. The consultation paper, signed by Mr Olalere Odusote, the Commissioner of Energy and Mineral Resources...
Daily Times May 21, 2021 Local Government is the most fascinating word in our political lexicon. It indeed is supposed to brings order to the lives of our people of rural and non-urban areas and gives the society equal opportunity at the grass root level to partake in expending public finances on projects of construction and development of their own local needs instead of looking up to the Federal or Provincial governments for help. The concept is too good to recount its multiple benefits in this small space which are normally expected to accrue to the society in educating rural masses to kno...
Share The Organised Labour celebrated May Day at the popular Eagles Square, Abuja on Saturday with a demand for upward review of salary for workers. Besides, the organised labour, under the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), demanded payment of gratuity to retiring officers to be restored in the public service. The President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba and the TUC President, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, in their joint address, also called for upward review of the retirement age and years of service in the entire civil service. They said: “We demand an upward review...
Local government and Pakistan’s reluctant political elite Even when elections are held, power is hardly devolved to the last tier The writer is a public policy analyst based in Lahore and be reached at [email protected] Like many issues, the decision that the local body elections are the lifeline of a democratic system sans which governance remains an incomplete project leading to civil unrest has failed to make a wave with the Pakistani politicians. Even Imran Khan, who has been thumping his chest in favour of the local government system when in opposition, has failed to give local gove...