SERAP
29 Sep
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to enforce the judgement ordering INEC to pursue cases of bribery against state governors, their deputies, and other electoral offences committed during the 2023 general elections. The judgement, delivered on 18 July 2024 by…
23 Sep
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and anti-corruption agencies to investigate the spending of billions of naira ..
22 Sep
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to order an investigation into the spending of the billions of naira of Ecological Fund collected by Borno State since 2001 following the recent floods. SERAP made the call in a letter dated Saturday, 21 September, 2024 and signed by its deputy director Kolawole…
16 Sep
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Bola Tinubu at the Federal High Court, Abuja, for failing to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to reverse “the apparently unlawful increase in the pump price of petrol,” and to probe allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the NNPCL.
15 Sep
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has initiated legal action against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
12 Sep
Deputy Director of the Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project (SERAP), Kolawole Dare, has said the body will not be intimidated by the Federal Government’s actions and will file a public interest lawsuit at the Federal High Court
11 Sep
Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), has condemned what it described as 'the unshaded onslaught against democracy' being perpetrated by state apparatus under the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Founding Director, WARDC, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, said that the government's attacks against the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), by the State Security Service should…
11 Sep
Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president and 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said attacks on media and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under President Bola Tinubu’s administration are worse than what occurred during the military era.
10 Sep
The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) on Tuesday condemned the arrest of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, by the Department of State Services (DSS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. It also expressed worry over the DSS siege to the Abuja office of the Socio-Economic…
10 Sep
The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied intimidating the staff of SERAP at their office in Wuse Zone 1 yesterday. In an unsigned
10 Sep
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has obtained judgments on two public interest litigations in Nigeria.
10 Sep
A nationwide industrial action seems imminent if the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, is not released from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) by midnight yesterday.
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