Former Ekiti State Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose has said that there is no autonomy for the local governments yet, as the recent judgement by the Supreme Court is just an academy exercise since the governor still selects the elected local government chairman. He made his opinion known through his X handle this morning. He writes: You see I am not a lawyer but a politician and by the grace of God, an elder statesman and I will be very factual and very sincere. We are...

The Oyo State Government has appointed a former secretary of the Park Management System (PMS) of the state, Oluwatomiwa Omolewa, as the new chairman of the agency.It also appointed Kasali Lawal as the secretary of the PMS, an agency that runs commuter vehicle parks in the state. The appointments were announced in a press statement by the spokesperson of the state governor, Sulaimon Olanrewaju, on Sunday.The state government last week removed Lamidi Mukaila, aka Auxi...

There are 95 million registered voters, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for the election in 2023.Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), revealed that Nigeria now has 22 million more registered voters than all of West Africa combined during a speech at an event sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)...