{"id":201420,"date":"2025-07-02T08:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-assembly-tackles-sanwo-olu-over-local-government-law\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:32:49","slug":"nigeria-lagos-assembly-tackles-sanwo-olu-over-local-government-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-assembly-tackles-sanwo-olu-over-local-government-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Lagos Assembly Tackles Sanwo-Olu Over Local Government Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>The law applies to chairpersons and vice chairpersons across Lagos&#8217; 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Lagos State House of Assembly has criticised the executive&#8217;s plan to delay the implementation of the 2025 Local Government Administration Law until August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">At Tuesday&#8217;s plenary, Speaker Mudashiru Obasa read a letter conveying Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu&#8217;s position, signed by Lagos Solicitor-General Ahmed Oyenuga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507020054.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law applies to chairpersons and vice chairpersons across Lagos&#8217; 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas. The Lagos State House of Assembly has criticised the executive&#8217;s plan to delay the implementation of the 2025 Local Government Administration Law until August. At Tuesday&#8217;s plenary, Speaker Mudashiru Obasa read a letter conveying Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7269,6427,2477,7077,7823,257,4687,393,31212,254,14967],"class_list":["post-201420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-government","tag-lagos","tag-law","tag-local","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sanwoolu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackles"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}