By Kingston Magare 14.3.2026
President Bola Tinubu has called on states and local governments to improve on the living standards of Nigerians since they now have more funds to deliver tangible development at the grassroots level.
Tinubu stated that with increased allocations, projects and programmes that will impact on the lives of Nigerians must be embarked upon.
He noted that government officials will be held accountable if there are no such developments.
“We’ve opened up the principle of federalism to the extent that local governments are now getting their money.
“But how they use it is in your hands. Don’t bombard me alone; look out to the local government too”, said Tinubu while hosting the leaders of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) to an Interfaith breaking of fast at the State House, Abuja.
He called on the media to also demand accountability, development and service from other tiers of government, saying the federal government reform policies have made more funds available to the federating units.
“We can complain that it is not enough. We can complain we are not where we should be, but we have to manage what we have to sustain today, survive tomorrow and make progress. It is a collective responsibility for you, me, and those people that we assign”, Tinubu said.