Sentences with phrase «local government finances which»

As a follow up, Senator Shola Adeyeye, suggested that government should introduce community policing as a panacea to incessant killings, while also blaming governors of States for tampering with Local Government finances which he said, have not allowed effective operations of Council areas.

Not exact matches

On Monday, the state planner issued new rules for companies which are planning to issue bonds to put more pressure on debt - laden local governments to get their finances in order.

Colonial, which recently announced plans to move its headquarters to Madrid from Barcelona, where Catalonia's local government is in turmoil over its attempt to split from Spain, said the transaction was fully financed through a combination of equity, bonds and the disposal of non-core assets.

But in the ninth century, as the expense of financing all these churches and clergy became enormous, some local governments began to excise additional taxes on the people, which went to help cover the costs of maintaining the church buildings and clergy.

He isn't interested in government financing of local farming because he believes that growers build their own market base, which makes it possible for them to continue farming.

The governor informed them that the amount the state got so far was the sum of N8.8 billion, which was shared between the state and local government, «with over 70 per cent of it expended on the payment of salaries instead of the 50 per cent agreed with the Federal Ministry of Finance.»

«The defendants were also accused of using their offices as SSG and Commissioner for Finance to siphon N315, 000,000, which sum was approved and released to organise sensitisation and enlightenment programmes for imams and mallams against religious incitement of supporters for the 2015 general elections in the 21 local government areas of Kebbi State.»

The Committee, which is chaired by the Minister for Planning, Prof. Gyan Baffuor, has the Ministers for Trade and Industry; Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration; Finance; Food and Agriculture; Attorney General; Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation; Monitoring and Evaluation; Education; Health; Sanitation and Water Resources; Local Government and Rural Development; Gender, Children and Social Protection; Employment and Labour Relations; and Fisheries and Aquaculture as members.

The Post Bank - which would be established with government funding, supported for example, by the issue of local bonds, would offer a variety of finance services through post office branches and online - would address these key concerns.

Local government is financed by a combination of centrally - administered funding and locally - administered charges and taxes - the most significant of which is council tax.

Since the crash, a down - spiral is underway in the $ 2.8 trillion municipal - funding system, in which local governments don't have the revenue to meet bond payments, they can't get new financing, municipal bond rates are rising, and, to worsen it all, crazy credit default swap deals have been foisted on localities.

According to Vice president Dr. Bawumia, government has chosen a strategic shift and «we want to build a Ghana which looks to the use of its own resources and their proper management as the way to engineer social and economic growth in our country...» For him, a Ghana beyond aid means mobilizing and leveraging domestic savings and revenues transparently; expand financial inclusion with credit services and saving systems for all, especially women; and financing through local capital markets in local currencies.

Instead, it works with state and local governments that provide assistance in the form of grants, which don't require repayment, and financing, which must be repaid.

In addition to being a popular tourist and resort destination, the city has a robust economy which includes a large service sector, education, technology, health care, finance, agriculture, manufacturing, and local government.

The exemption from rates in para 11 of Sch 5 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (LGFA 1988) in respect of «place of public religious worship» can not apply to places used for religious worship from which the public is excluded; such exclusion is not discriminatory on religious grounds.

In keeping with the Government's promise to those entities doing business at UK ports the Localism Bill which had its first reading in the House of Commons on the 13 December 2010 includes an amendment to Section 49 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 giving the Secretary of State powers to make regulations to grant relief from the payment of business rates for premises in prescribed cases.

According to online leaked documents, the Chinese government is seeking an «orderly exit» from bitcoin mining operations in the coming months with the Leading Group of Internet Financial Risks Remediation, which happens to be the country's top internet - finance regulator, issuing a notice asking local governments to force mining operations out of business by resorting to measures such taxation, electricity pricing, property law and environmental regulations.

The idea has also drawn the ire of the Federal Housing Finance Authority, the regulator of government mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which has threatened to stop local governments from seizing underwater homes through eminent domain.