LAGOS STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION LAW 2025

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LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION LAW, 2025

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Interpretation

PART I – LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM, ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL

2.       Local Government System, etc.

3.       Local Government Areas.

4.       Local Council Development Areas

5.       Division of Local Government Areas into Wards

6.       Establishment of Councils for Local Government Area, etc.

7.       Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council

8.       Cessation of Office

9.       The Clerk of the Council

10.     Staff of the Council

11.     Cessation of Office of the Clerk

12.     Sitting of the Council

13.     Quorum

14.     Voting

15.     Proceedings of the Council

16.     Standing Committees of the Council

17.     Dissolution of the Council and Issue of Proclamation

PART II – CHAIRMAN, VICE-CHAIRMAN AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ETC.

18.     Establishment of Offices of Chairman and Vice-Chairman

19.     Qualification of Chairman

20.     Disqualification of Chairman

21.     Declaration of Assets Liabilities and Oaths

22.     Function of the Vice-Chairman

23.     Nomination of the Vice-Chairman

24.     Impeachment of a Chairman or Vice-Chairman by the Legislative Council

25.     Suspension of Elected Official after Investigation by the House

26.     Permanent Incapacity of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman

27.     Discharge of Functions of Chairman

28.     Tenure of Office of Chairman

29.     Death of Chairman/Vice-Chairman Elect

30.     Local Government Area Supervisors/Political Appointees

31.     Secretary to the Local Government

32.     Functions of the Secretary to the Local Government

33.     Chief of Staff to the Chairman

34.     Departments/Units of the Local Government Area

35.     Council Manager 

36.     Council Treasurer

37.     Local Government Guidelines/Regulations

38.     Meetings of the Local Government Area

39.     Attendance of Chairman at Sitting of the Council

PART III – COUNCILLORS

40.     Wards’ Councilors

41.     Qualification of Councillors

42.     Disqualification of Councillors

43.     Declaration of Assets and Liabilities

44.     Oaths of Office – Schedule 3

45.     Cessation of Office of Councillors

46.     Recall

PART IV – EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE POWERS AND FUNCTIONS BY A LOCAL GOVERNMENT

47.     Executive Powers of the Local Government

48.     Responsibility of Vice-Chairman and Supervisors

49.     Functions of a Local Government Area

50.     Street Naming

EXERCISE OF LEGISLATIVE POWERS AND FUNCTIONS BY A LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL

51.     Local Government Councils Declared to be Legislatures

52.     Mode of Exercising Legislative Powers

53.     Power and Control over Public Funds

54.     Penalty and other Provisions on Bye-Laws

55.     Local Government Service

PART VI – REVENUE AND ACCOUNT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

56.     Allocation of Revenue to Local Government

57.     Appointment of Auditor-General

58.     Auditing of Accounts of Local Government

59.     Savings

60.     Budgetary Expenditure

61.     Repeal

62.     Citation and Commencement

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF LAGOS STATE

SCHEDULES 2 – LOCAL COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT AREAS OF LAGOS STATE

SCHEDULE 3 – OATHS

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

OATH OF OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN

OATH OF OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHAIRMAN, SUPERVISORS AND SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT

OATH OF A MEMBER OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL

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ASSENTED TO AT IKEJA, THIS 7^TH DAY OF MAY, 2025

MR. BABATUNDE OLUSOLA SANWO-OLU

GOVERNOR OR LAGOS STATE

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION LAW 2025

Law No. 2, 2025

LAGOS STATE OF NIGERIA

A LAW TO PROVIDE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM, ESTABLISHMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND TO CONSOLIDATE ALL LAWS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION IN LAGOS STATE AND FOR CONNECTED PURPOSES.

(COMMENCEMENT)                                                 (7TH MAY, 2025)

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THE LAGOS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY enacts as follows:

1.       Interpretation

(1)     In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires-

“Appointment” includes appointment to an office, confirmation of appointment, promotion or transfer;

“Authority” includes Government;

“Electoral Commission” means the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commissioner;

“House” means Lagos State House of Assembly;

“Legislative Cadre” includes all officers that are designated to serve the Legislative Council of a Local Government in any capacity;

“Local Government Area” includes Local Council Development Area:

“Oath” includes affirmation;

“Office” means any of the political offices, the appointment to which is by election, selection or nomination under this Law;

“Officer” means a person working in the Local Government/Local Council Development Area who is not a political appointee;

“Political Party” means a political party registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission;

“School Certificate or its equivalent” includes –

(a)     A Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent” or Grade II Teacher’s Certificate, the City and Guilds Certificate; or

(b)     Education up to Secondary School Certificate level: or

(c)     Primary Six Certificate or its equivalent; and

(i)      service in the public or private sector of the Federation in any capacity acceptable to the Commission for a minimum of ten (10) years; and

(ii)     attendance at courses and training in such institutions as may be acceptable to the Commission for periods totalling a minimum of one (1) year.

(d)     Any other qualification acceptable to the Commission;

“Secret Society” includes any association, group or body of persons (whether registered or not)

(a)     that uses secret signs, oaths, rites or symbols and which is formed to promote a cause, the purpose or part of the purposes of which is to foster the interest of its members and to aid one another under any circumstance without due regard to merit, fair play or justice to the detriment of the legitimate interest of those who are not members;

(b)     the membership of which is incompatible with the function or dignity of any public officer under this Law or any other enactment and whose members are sworn to observe oath of secrecy; and

(d)     the activities of which are not known to the public at large and the names of whose members are kept secret and whose meetings and other activities are held in secret; and

“State” means Lagos State of Nigeria.

(2)     In this Law, references to a person holding an office includes references to a person acting in that office or holding that office for the time being.

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