Sentences with phrase «tiers of government»

Under an arrangement of this type, «sovereignty» is shared between different tiers of government, each with its own respective spheres of operation.

There are numerous tiers of government in the UK for which voters are regularly asked to cast their ballots, including local councils, directly elected mayors, police and crime commissioners, national assemblies and parliaments.The first past the post system for local councils in England and Wales as well as Westminster also means that the nuances of local politics can vary significantly from place to place.

He called for an urgent review to enable other tiers of government realise their potentials and accelerate growth and development.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee on True Federalism has recommended the scrapping of local government as third tier of government.

The most recent Senate report on access to justice published in 2009, for example, concluded that «the legal system is not sufficiently providing members of the Australian community with access to justice'i and in its first recommendation proposed that the various tiers of government fund «a comprehensive national survey of demand and unmet need for legal assistance services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The Federal Government, State Governments and Local Government Councils received a net statutory allocation of N207.878 Billion as Federal Allocation for the month of April, 2016 which was shared among the three tiers of government as follows: Federal Government 52.68 %, States -LSB-...]

According to Shehu, it is the right of citizens to demand the judicious use of the Ecological Fund, which is distributed among the three tiers of government from the Federation Account.

A Citizen's Convention The UK needs a Constitutional Convention look at how the various tiers of government work together and to consider the entrenchment of basic rights and freedoms.

By means of steady communication and financial contributions, representatives of producer groups build close relationships with the senators and representatives who serve on relevant committees in Congress, state legislators who act in the same capacity at the middle tier of government, and local officials who serve on special boards and commissions that affect the well - being of the producer group.

Are operations more efficient when schools are run mainly by one tier of government instead of by an often fractious federal - state - local partnership?

An exclusive report by the Economic Confidential, an intelligence economic magazine, disclosed that the total figure was payment made to the two tiers of government between June 2015 and May 2016 at the monthly meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC)..

National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, yesterday, disclosed that the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, shared N467.85 billion among the three tiers of government in August 2017.

He noted that lately, disaster management in the country was gradually being ceded to the Federal Government by other tiers of government.

He also urged residents to be peaceful and orderly in casting and protecting their votes in their respective wards for Chairmen and councilors who are expected to drive development at the third tier of government.

It introduced a variety of different voting systems for different tiers of Government, with no convincing explanation as to why this hotchpotch produced a principled system.

*** «inertia»: noun a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged; «the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government» synonyms: inactivity, inaction, inactiveness, inertness, passivity, apathy, accidie, malaise, stagnation, dullness, enervation, sluggishness, lethargy, languor, languidness, listlessness, torpor, torpidity, idleness, indolence, laziness, sloth, slothfulness.

The culmination of many months of consultation with industry, academia, the not - for - profit sector, and all tiers of government, the Strategy establishes a framework to support actions that can help work towards halving Australia's food waste by 2030.

He added that the situation is so bad that what the Federal government used to take from the federation accounts as its own monthly revenue about 18 months ago is even more than what is being shared by the three tiers of government.

He called on other leaders in all tiers of government in Nigeria to stop relying on the failed oils sector and seek for means to sustain their economy.

The lawmaker, who advised the three tiers of government to be considerate and just, urged Nigerians not to commit suicide, no matter the difficulty.

He said: «The current revenue allocation formula by which the Federal Government takes as much as 52.68 % of centrally - collected revenues in the Federation Account, leaving the States and Local Governments with 26.72 % and 20.60 % respectively has created a glaring and unacceptable imbalance in the financial resources of the three tiers of government.

According to him, the National Senior Citizens Centre Act, 2018, allows the establishment of the National Senior Citizens Centres by institutions and three tiers of government in the country to cater for the needs of the senior citizens.

He said, «Since the State Comptrollers are closer to this tier of government, they are better placed to verify the eligibility of the applicants to official passports and convey same to us electronically».

That was after over N360billion was shared to the tiers of government and agencies.

The report stated: «The Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, disbursed N467.85 billion to the three tiers of government in August 2017 from the revenue generated in July 2017.

This is N184.38 billion less than the N652.23 billion disbursed to the three tiers of government in July 2017, representing a drop of 28.3 percent.

According to him, Buhari can only be taken serious if he extends his dragnet across the inter-party divide as well as to other tiers of government.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, in constituting 17 Caretaker Committee Chairmen for the council areas, retained three outgoing Chairmen to deepen continuity at the third tier of government.

But what we did in our own case is sharing the money within the three tiers of government and it encourages corruption and that is the reason why the country has not been developed.»

«What happens with the other tiers of government?»

Highlighting the current global economic hardship, the communique added that Osun is not alone in the economic difficulties just as participants noted that the dwindling economic fortune will affect all tiers of government, including their business partners.

The Economic Confidential has been at the forefront of dishing out Federation Account allocations figures of all tiers of government for the benefit of Nigerians in the last decade.

Earlier, Nwosu said the country could not entrench accountability and transparency in the public service without guaranteed autonomy through administrative and financial independence for auditors - general at the three tiers of government.

British Retail Consortium director general Stephen Robertson said: «Moving spending powers from Whitehall to other tiers of government isn't the answer.

Among other actions, starting from the second Obasanjo administration, she, for the first time in Nigeria's history, published monthly revenue allocations to all tiers of government for Nigerians to see.

He noted that there are only two tiers of government in a federal system of government, namely the Federal government and the government at the federating level.

«Another anormally that people, because of their frustration to some aspect of administration, are equally making mistake on and need correction is that a federation has two tiers of government.

Spending Review - NHS, Schools and a Fairer Society The parties agree that a full Spending Review should be held, reporting this Autumn, following a fully consultative process involving all tiers of government and the private sector.

«The situation is such that Nigeria gets say $ 2 billion revenue in a month, calculates the $ 2 billion revenue on the basis of the official CBN rate of N199 and share the revenue among the three tiers of government» he said.

Allocation from the Federation Account to the three tiers of government has declined to such a level that most States can no longer carry out the basic obligation of paying workers» salary.

The election is especially important for the Queens Republican Party, which is trying to gain a foothold on three tiers of government.

We have a government aide, that is never elected, but allocates money to other tiers of government.

Currently, anti-corruption agencies are proving cases of looting and mopping of public funds in all tiers of government through over-inflated contracts and expenditures on non-existing projects to ensure electoral victory.

«If 50 per cent of the allocations at the three tiers of governments are judiciously put to use, we would not be where we are in terms of underdevelopment and infrastructural decay,» he explained.

The parties agree that a full Spending Review should be held, reporting this Autumn, following a fully consultative process involving all tiers of government and the private sector.