Court orders Buhari’s minister to account for N729bn payment to poor Nigerians
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered a former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, to account for payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months. The court also ordered…
Drop all charges against activists, journalists, others – SERAP to Nigerian Govt
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked the Nigerian Federal Government, as well as the state governments, to drop criminal charges against activists, journalists, rights defenders and others who are on trial “solely for peacefully exercising their human…
SERAP gives CBN 7 days to ‘account for missing N100bn dirty notes, other public funds’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), “to account for and explain the whereabouts of the over N100 billion ‘dirty and bad notes’ and ‘other large sum of…
SERAP sues 36 governors, FCT minister over FAAC allocations
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued Nigeria’s 36 governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,Nyesom Wike. They were sued for failing “to account for the spending of trillions of Federation Account Allocation Committee allocations collected…
SERAP demands audit of FG’s loans since 1999
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Bola Tinubu to release copies of loan agreements obtained by the governments of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, the late Umaru Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari. SERAP also urged…
SERAP sues Tinubu over failure to probe missing $3.4 billion IMF loan
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over “the failure to probe the grim allegations that $3.4 billion loan obtained by Nigeria from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to finance the budget and respond to…
SERAP sues Akpabio, Abbas over ‘failure to clarify details of N344.85bn NASS budget’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over “the failure to disclose, clarify and explain the details National Assembly budget of…
SERAP, 20 others sue Akpabio, Abbas, others for increasing own budget by N147bn
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and 20 concerned Nigerians have sued the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas for unilaterally and arbitrarily increasing the allocation for lawmakers from N197 billion to N344…