SERAP
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 cash awaiting examination’ which are kept in various branches of the CBN.” SERAP, which made […]
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 by their states and the FCT since 1999″. This was contained in a release on […]
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 the President to disclose the spending details of these loans, including interests and other payments […]
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 COVID-19 is missing, diverted or unaccounted for.” The allegations are contained in the recently published 2020 […]
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 N344.85 billion, and the rationale for several budget items, such as the N6 billion budgeted […]
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 billion, representing highest since the return of democracy in 1999. Akpabio and Abbas were sued […]