The Eastern Nigerian Government (of the colonial era) pioneered the creation of local governments by regional governments with the Eastern Nigerian Local Government Ordinance of 1950, which created a three-tier local government system of county, district and local councils. But the conjoined military governments of Generals Murtala Muhammed and Olusegun Obasanjo contrived the so-called landmark […]

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