Broken Foundations: Local government collapse and Nigeria’s insecurity crisis, by Hassan Ahmad For far too long, Nigeria’s leaders have played politics with the very foundation of national development — the local government system. Once conceived as the closest tier of governance to the people, the local government areas (LGAs) have now become graveyards of unfulfilled promises, ghost workers, stolen allocations, and abandoned responsibilities. This decay is not accidental — it is designed, orchestrated, and sustained by the ruling elites across party lines. Today, as Nigerians continue to cry under the weight...