SERAP
29 Apr
SOCIO-ECONOMIC Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over failure to account for and explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing $2.04 billion and N164 billion oil revenues.
22 Apr
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged 36 state governors and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nyesom Wike, to provide the organisation with documents on the spending of trillions of naira allocations
15 Apr
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct appropriate Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to provide the organisation with copies of loan agreements obtained by the governments of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari
8 Apr
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, at the Federal High Court, Abuja over “failure to refer the alleged N3.7 trillion budget padding to appropriate anti-corruption agencies
1 Apr
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigeria’s 36 state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to “widely publish copies of the loan agreements and spending details of some N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans
18 Mar
AREWA Consultative Forum (ACF) has faulted the suspension of the Senator representing Bauchi Central in the National Assembly, Abdul Ningi, over his N3.7 trillion 2024 budget padding allegation.
17 Mar
The revelations made on alleged financial misdeeds and misappropriation during the N3.7 trillion padding of the 2024 budget debate, no doubt, may have created more credibility problems for the upper chamber despite suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi.
11 Mar
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr Aminu Maida, to revoke, immediately, directive to network providers to bar phone lines of millions of Nigerians, who have not linked their SIM cards to their National Identification Numbers (NINs).
4 Mar
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Bola Tinubu and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF)/Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, at the Federal High Court, Abuja over ‘failure’ to probe the ‘missing’ $3.4 billion loan
26 Feb
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nyesom Wike, at the Federal High Court in Abuja over failure to account for an alleged missing N40 trillion federal allocations
23 Feb
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, yesterday, asserted that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Judicial Council would soon review the enforcement of judgments from the sub-regional body’s court.
19 Feb
SERAP noted that the allegations were documented in the latest annual report recently published by the Auditor-General of the Federation. The organisation urged Kyari to name and shame those responsible for the disappeared oil money
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