{"id":156380,"date":"2025-03-24T22:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/release-lg-funds-directly-nlc-begs-nigerian-govt"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:01:21","slug":"release-lg-funds-directly-nlc-begs-nigerian-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/release-lg-funds-directly-nlc-begs-nigerian-govt","title":{"rendered":"Release LG funds directly \u2013 NLC begs Nigerian govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on the Federal Government to ensure that local government allocations are paid directly.<\/p>\n<p>This is as it also urged the government and Governors not to play politics with the implementation of the Supreme Court judgment directing local governments to open accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for direct allocations.<\/p>\n<p>President of NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, made the call at the 8th National Administrative Council meeting of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, in Abuja on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ajaero pledged the Congress\u2019 support in ensuring NULGE\u2019s fight for full autonomy was achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have got autonomy now. I want to plead with the federal government not to play politics with the autonomy we have gotten. The release of funds to local governments should not be at the whims and caprices of the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a position of law. It is not if you like me, you send me money. If you don\u2019t like me, you won\u2019t send me money. I think we should get that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe very moment the judicial arm of government, the highest court in the land, gave that ruling, they are not doing anybody any favour any longer. And even the president agrees with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I don\u2019t understand their sense of delays any longer. So the NLC, NULGE and all trade union movements in Nigeria will work with all of you to make sure that we fight any infraction at any unit, be it council, be it state. Our struggle has been highlighted in such a way that it will not be a way of telling them to obey the law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ajaero, who commended past leaders of NULGE for efficiently piloting the affairs of the union and for maintaining a smooth process of democracy and transition, advised the new leadership to follow the precedents already set by others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on the Federal Government to ensure that local government allocations are paid directly. 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