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1. Means of identification (NIN, Voters card & Drivers Licence) 2. Letter of First appointment 3. Birth Certification/Decleration of age 4. Confirmation of appointment 5. Certificate of Local Government Origin 6. All promotion letters issued by the Commission 7. All academic qualifications/Professional Qualifications 8. BANK NAME 9. ACCOUNT NUMBER 10, BVN 11. Bank statement from the period of April-June 2024 REQUIREMENTS FOR SALARY AUTOMATION, 2024 2011 & 2012 STAFF (NOT ON PAY ROLL) 1. Means of ldentification (.e NIN, Voters card & Drivers Licence) 2. Letter of First appointment letter 3. Birth Certification/Decleration of age 4. Confirmation of appointment 5. Certificate of Local Government Origin 6. All promotion letters issued by the Commission 7. All academic qualifications/Professional Qualifications 8. BANK NAME 9. ACCOUNT NUMBER 10.BVN 11. Bank statement from the period of January 2015 to Dec, 2016. SCHEDULE FOR EACH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA. Thursday and F...

The Federal Government will from July withhold local government allocations to Benue, Enugu, Kano, Rivers, and 16 other states in compliance with the Supreme Court judgement. The apex court on Thursday delivered a judgment in the local government autonomy suit filed by the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on behalf of the Nigerian Government, barring the Federal Government from releasing allocations to local governments governed by unelected officials appointed by the state governors. In the judgment, Justice Emmanuel Agim barred the Federal Government from further paying LG allocations through the state governments, noting that the practice had been abused by the governors. Justice Agim accused the state governors of retaining allocations and utilising them as they please, to the detriment of the local government councils. Following the judgment, 20 states that have no elected local government chairmen stand barred from receiving local governme...

In landmark judgment delivered today in Abuja, the federal capital territory and reported by This Day News, the Supreme Court of Nigeria has ordered the stoppage of the payment of Local Government Councils’ allocation through the state. The apex court in a judgement held that Section 162 (4&5) which stipulated a joint account for state and local governments have been defeated and being exploited by the various state governments hence, the need for an order directing the payments of funds due to the local governments from the federation account directly to the local governments. The apex court made the order while delivering judgement in the suit filed by the federal government seeking to pursue autonomy of the local governments. Justice Emmanuel Agim, who delivered the lead judgement pointed out that Nigeria operates a three-tier system of government where no one tier is subordinate to the order. The apex court in the judgement observed that for the last two decades the...