Nigeria: Nigeria's Highest Court Says Local Governments Can Spend Their Funds Without Interference - Why This Matters

[The Conversation Africa] Nigeria's Supreme Court has affirmed the financial autonomy of the country's 774 local government areas. It upheld the suit brought by the federal government to strengthen the independence of local governments in the country. Nigeria's attorney-general and minister of justice filed the suit in May. Local governments have been hampered in most states, where the governors seize their federal allocations and only release funds to them piecemeal. Public law scholar Abiodun Odusote explains the implications of