North West’s unaccountable reckoning with LG funds

By Fred Itua, Abuja; Noah Ebije, Kaduna; and Olanrewaju Lawal, Birnin Kebbi

More than a year after the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment granting financial autonomy to Nigeria’s 774 local government councils, the picture across the seven states of the North West geopolitical zone remains as varied as the terrain itself. In some states, officials insist the judgment has been fully implemented. In…