By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to promptly and thoroughly investigate the spending of Ecological Fund by governments at...
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “promptly set up a presidential panel of enquiry to thoroughly, impartially, and transparently investigate the operations of illegal oil pipelines from 2001 to date, and to widely publish the names of anyone suspected to be involved.” SERAP...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and 36 state governors to “publicly instruct the Nigeria police and state security outfits to respect, protect, and facilitate the rights of everyone to freedom of expression, assembly, association, and equal participation during...
he Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to improve the living conditions of people in Niger Delta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a member of SERAP, Dr Olubunmi Afinowi, gave the advice in Ikeja. She spoke at an interactive...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to publish copy and details of the agreement the Federal Government recently signed with the United States for the repatriation of $23 million stolen by the late...
The Federal government on Monday urged the National Industrial Court to order the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its seven months strike. Joined as a claimant in the matter is the Minster of Education, with the President of ASUU as sole defendant. The matter which...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and five university students have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, asking the court to “declare unlawful the refusal by the Federal Government to meet ASUU’s demands, which has occasioned the prolonged strike action and violated the students’ right to quality education.”...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Federal High Court in Lagos has stopped President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), from revoking the licenses of 53 broadcast stations in the country, and shutting down the stations for allegedly failing to renew their licenses. Following the hearing of an...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has demanded for a copy of the agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the United States Government over plans to return the over $23 million looted by the late dictator Sani Abacha, SERAP made the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “immediately give seven million Nigerians who have carried out their voter registration online the time and opportunity to complete the process, so that...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government of Nigeria to demand a refund of the N1.4billion it gave to Niger Republic authorities and use the refund to offset ASUU funding. Recall that the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Mrs. Zainab Ahmed confirmed on...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture to withdraw the threat to sanction the BBC and Daily Trust over their documentaries on terrorism in the country, whether through the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for “failing to prosecute those suspected of vote-buying and electoral bribery during the recently concluded Ekiti State governorship election.” SERAP in a statement on Sunday, claimed that...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise till July 31, 2022. Chairman of INEC Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday. According to him, the decision followed a recent...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – An advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to redirect the budgets of the Presidency, the National Assembly and other sectors in order to meet the demands of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). SERAP, in a letter,...
The Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to enactment an audit law to fight against debt crisis and revenue issues in the county. The Executive Director of Paradigm Leaders Support Initiative (PLSI), Mr Segun Elemo gave the advice in Ikeja at an...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over his failure to probe allegations that over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply since 1999 may have been stolen, mismanaged or diverted into private pockets.” Nigerian cities...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from ending voter registration on 30 June 2022. Honourable Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon (Court 10) today granted an order of interim injunction following the hearing of an argument on motion exparte...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prosecute all those involved in vote-buying in the course of the Ekiti State governorship election. SERAP in a short tweet on Saturday said the prosecution must not end with those caught in the...
BY EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “widely publish the reports on the accounts and balance sheet of every political party submitted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to...