Tag: SERAP
Court orders FG to recover pension paid to ex-governors now senators or ministers
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos in a landmark judgment has ordered the Federal Government to “recover pensions collected…
Zainab Ahmed sued for hoarding information on Abuja CCTV project
For hoarding information on the contractors paid from the $460million Chinese loan for the failed Abuja Closed-Circuit TV project, Zainab…
Sowore: DSS reported to Africa’s rights commission
A Nigerian rights group has written the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights requesting intervention to stop the harassment…
Sowore: Archbishop of Canterbury replies SERAP
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal Welby, has responded to an open letter by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability…
Kogi, Bayelsa elections: ICC urged to probe PDP, APC leaders
A Nigerian rights group has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate whether the violence that characterised the Bayelsa…
Sowore: SERAP condemns violent attacks by SSS officers on peaceful protesters
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “violent attacks on peaceful protesters demanding the release of Omoyele Sowore and…
SERAP transmits letter to Archbishop of Canterbury over Sowore’s case
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal…
N241b Security votes: SERAP sues Buhari, NASS leaders
How much money do the Federal Government, state governors and council chairmen, spend on the unaccountable security votes every year?…
LG allocations: ‘Why Buhari must probe governors’
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to direct…
SERAP writes Trump, seeks travel ban for governors jailing journalists, others
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the US President, Donald Trump asking him to…
Who pocketed the $460m for Abuja CCTV? Query for Zainab Ahmed
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Minister of…
SERAP invites ICPC, EFCC probe Senate leaders on ‘job slots’
SERAP has asked the ICPC and EFCC to probe principal officers and members of the senate who are using their…
Assets disclosure by Prezy, govs: SERAP floors CCB in round one
There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing details of asset declarations of presidents and state governors may soon have some…
‘Why Buhari’s government is undermining judiciary’
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said failure to publish and fully implement the recommendations of the report…
Sowore’s release triumph of the rule of law: SERAP
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has lauded the decision by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in…
SERAP awaits list of rogue electricity contractors from Buhari
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) said it is waiting for President Muhammadu Buhari to implement a judgment of the…
N5.5b for luxury cars: 6721 Nigerians, 3 groups sue National Assembly
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT, Enough is Enough (EiE) and 6,721 concerned Nigerians have sued the National Assembly…
SERAP to A-G Malami: Time for public register of corrupt governors
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, to develop…
Let Obasanjo face the music
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed “the reported probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of…
Corruption fuelling insecurity in Nigeria – Stakeholders
Citizens, civil society leaders and other stakeholders have raised serious concerns about the escalating series of kidnappings, killings and insecurity…
Emulate Makinde, declare assets openly, SERAP tells governors
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged 35 state governors in Nigeria to emulate the shining example of…
SERAP drags Nigerian officials to ICC for leaving 13.2m children out of school
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC),…
Stop collecting pensions, SERAP tells Orji Kalu, Okorocha, Amosun, Ajimobi
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged all former governors now in the ninth Senate to “publicly commit to…
SERAP sues CCB: You can’t keep assets filed by govs, presidents secret
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a legal challenge against the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) over CCB’s…
Success Adegor: SERAP sues Okowa over poor, substandard primary schools
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court to compel governor Ifeanyi…
SERAP to Saraki, Dogara: Withdraw ‘repressive NASS media accreditation guidelines now
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the leadership and management of the National Assembly to immediately withdraw…
I need more than seven days to account for security votes – Nasarawa governor
Nasarawa governor, Tanko Al-Makura, has stated that he will need more than seven days to respond to a freedom of…
Fashola ask agencies to provide details of corrupt contractors
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN has written to Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)…
SERAP drags FG, States to ECOWAS Court over ‘attacks on journalists, bloggers’
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government and State Governments to ECOWAS Court of Justice…
SERAP blames successive govts, NASS for 2019 election delay, threatens to sue
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Nigerians to hold successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999…