The Kuje branch of NULGE conducted the outreach in collaboration with Kuje Area Council Health Department on Thursday.
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The body also appreciated the Governor for allowing the local councils to run independent of the state government, asserting that the Local Government Service Commission is now fully in charge of the councils.
The Ekiti State branch of NULGE made the commendation in a letter of appreciation to the governor, signed by its Secretary, Comrade Victor Adebayo earlier in the week. The union applauded the governor’s gesture, saying it would reposition local government administration in the state for excellent service delivery
He charged workers to ignore insinuations in the public domain that he will reverse the benefits if trusted with a mandate for a second term in office.
“The union wishes to inform the general public that monthly allocation to all the sixteen (16) local government councils in Kwara State is being administered by local government representatives, and all the union leaders at local government level are also observers at the monthly allocation meeting,” Comrade Hotonou O. Rafiu, state Secretary of Kwara State NULGE, clarified in a statement in Ilorin, the state capital.
The National President of NULGE, Ambali Olatunji, told newsmen in Enugu on Saturday that those behind the plot were insensitive to the plight and governance needs of majority of Nigerians in the rural areas.
Hakeem Ambali, National President of NULGE, said this when he spoke with newsmen in Kano.
The amount represents salaries and emoluments drawn monthly by 362 ghost workers discovered in the exercise, according to the report submitted to the state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, in his office on Tuesday.
The Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed the kidnap of Alhaji Hamman-Jolde Gatugel, the state chairman of the National Union of Local Government Employees.
Workers of Ibadan West Local Council Development Area and Ibadan North-West Local Government Area, both in Ibadan metropolis, were not allowed into the council secretariats on Monday.
The State also said in a statement that it was insisting on the full observance of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) in relation to the ongoing controversy surrounding the dissolution of the 68 “illegal” local council chairmen in the State.
The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has commenced investigation into alleged fraud in the Sokoto State Chapter of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees.
A statement issued on Sunday by Leonard Nkah, President of the NULGE Ebonyi State Chapter, said the committee made the commendation during the inauguration of the Ebonyi State Chapter of Younger Workers’ Committee.
The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees in Adamawa says local councils in the state have total control of their funds.
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees says most local government councils in the South East have been granted financial autonomy in line with the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit directive.
The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees has commended the Federal Government for introducing financial guidelines for local government areas in the country through the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit.
The Nigeria Local Government Employees has faulted the Nigeria Governors’ Forum over non-realisation of local government autonomy in the country.
Umahi disclosed this to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Ebonyi Chapter on Friday in Abakaliki.
The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, Adamawa Chapter, has raised alarm over hardship being experienced by its members, due to alleged nonpayment of their four months salary.
The state chapters of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Nigeria Union of Teachers and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees gave the commendation in a statement in Lokoja on Sunday.