Kaduna State LGA 2022 Budget Performance Tracking: Budget Offices to Get More Working Tools – Commissioner
… As Local Government Accountability Mechanism highlights importance of CDC in the Budget Cycle The Honourable Commissioner Ministry of Local Government Affairs Kaduna state, Hajia Umma K Ahmed, has reinstated the importance of adequate working tools for workers in the Budget offices in all the Local Government Areas in the state. The Commissioner stated this […]
WHY THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION SHOULD INVEST IN THE GROWTH OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES
By Yusuf Goje The BudgIT State of States Report for 2021 projected that Kaduna State needs to create 277,773 jobs annually over the next four years. This is in order to drastically reduce the unemployment and underemployment combined rate of 67%.
Kaduna State: Delayed Disbursement of Local Government Fiscal Transparency, Accountability & Sustainability (LFTAS) Performance Grants
By YUSUF ISHAKU GOJE A key recommendation for improving the LFTAS Programme performance, as captured in the independent verification report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), was for the timely disbursement of recommended performance incentives. This, according to the report, would serve as motivation to the local government councils and contribute to improved performance and ownership of the […]
Kaduna Government Policies Largely Influenced By Citizens- CSOs, Stakeholders Says
Stakeholders, comprising of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Ward Development Committees (WDCs), Schools Based Management Committee (SBMC), Traditional and Religious Leaders, Government Actors and the Media have Rated the Kaduna State government high on ‘Citizens Influence on Policy Change’ in the state at a Constituency Influence Assessment (CIA), meeting held on Tuesday 23 November, 2021, in […]
Communiqué Issued at the End of the Two-Day Stakeholders’ Reflection and Presentation of Community Development Charter (CDC) 2021 Half-Year Performance and 2022 Influence of the 23 Local Government Areas, held on the 19th and 20th of November, 2021, at Zaria
PreambleThe Local Government Accountability Mechanism (LGAM) with support from the Partnership to Engage, Reform & Learn (PERL) organized a two-day Stakeholders’ Reflection and Presentation of Community Development Charter (CDC) 2021 Half-Year Performance and 2022 Influence. The objectives were to: facilitate reflection and review of the CDC process during the 2022 budget formulation of the 23 […]
Ground Zero Town Hall Meeting: Mailafia, Abdul Bako Score Buhari Low
Former Deputy Governor of Central Bank and Development Economist, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia has scored President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressive Congress government in the last five years below failure “F” Mark. Similarly, President, Campaign for Democracy, CD, Comrade Abdul Bako gave the government a below pass mark. Both said their assessment was based on the fact […]
REVIEW OF THE KADUNA STATE DEVELOPMENT PLAN (SDP 2016-2021) AND BLOCKAGES TO BE ADDRESSED
By Yusuf Goje For keen observers of happenings in Kaduna state over the past four years and counting, it should be common knowledge that a number of governance reforms have been initiated by the State government, largely driven under the Public Financial Management (PFM) system and Open Government Partnership (OGP). These reforms have been deployed […]
Media, Citizens Set To Track Campaign Promises….
…Ground Zero creates platform for media, CSO to engage public officers Citizens have been told to hold elected officials accountable to campaign commitments if they wish to see good governance and development. This was part of the consensus reach at an audience participatory radio phone-in programs , GROUND ZERO, monitored in Kaduna on Saturday by […]