The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Bola Tinubu, alleging his government’s “failure to reverse the increase in the pump price of petrol.” Disclosing this in a statement on Sunday, SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, said the lawsuit was filed by SERAP against the President’s failure to probe the allegations of corruption…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr Olayemi Cardoso, 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 apex bank. SERAP…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked President Bola Tinubu to use the anniversary of his first year in office to publish his assets. SERAP tasked the President to use the anniversary as an opportunity to demonstrate his oft-expressed commitment to democracy, accountability, and openness in government. It urged him to encourage his Vice-President…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has given the Federal Government 48 hours to withdraw the 0.5% ‘cybersecurity levy’ imposed on Nigerians. This is contained in a statement on its official social media on Tuesday. SERAP threatened to drag the Federal Government to court if the “grossly unlawful” directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Also joined in the suit were the 36 state governors over over their failure to account for, and publish the agreements of the N5.9 trillion and $4.6…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has sued the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Limited, over the “failure to account for and explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing USD$2.04 billion and N164 billion oil revenues.” This is amid the allegations documented in the recently published 2020 audited report by the Auditor General of the…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio over “the failure to refer the alleged N3.7 trillion budget padding to appropriate anti-corruption agencies for investigation and prosecution, and to recall Senator Abdul Ningi, who blew the whistle on the allegations.” In a statement signed by…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has given the Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and other 35 state governors one-week ultimatum to provide the loan agreements and spending details of the loans “obtained by their states and the FCT.” SERAP’s requests also included the “details and…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to immediately reinstate whistleblower Abdul Ningi who was recently suspended from the Senate over his allegations that the lawmakers padded the 2024 budget by irregularly inserting projects worth N3.7 trillion. Ningi, who represents Bauchi Central at the Senate, was on Tuesday suspended…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited over Nigeria’s daily oil production as well as revenues raked in since the removal of the fuel subsidy. In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1719/2023 filed last Friday at the Federal High Court in Abuja, SERAP claimed the national oil company…