Tag: SERAP

“Publish NDDC audit report, prosecute those behind delay”, SERAP to Tinubu

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SERAP to Tinubu

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi to investigate those allegedly responsible for obstructing the publication of the forensic audit report on the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC). According to SERAP, this report, which covered the period between 2000 and 2019, was commissioned under former President Muhammadu Buhari and submitted to his administration in September 2021. It was said that despite public interest and repeated demands, the audit findings remain unpublished.…

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“Account for security votes”, SERAP tells Govs.

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SERAP tell Govs.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged the 36 State governors to publicly account for how they have spent security vote allocations since May 29, 2023, and to invite anti-corruption agencies to investigate the expenditure. In a Freedom of Information (FoI) request dated June 28, 2025, and signed by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the group also called on the governors to allow the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to track and monitor the disbursement of…

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SERAP demands June 12 annulment probe, e-transmission of election results

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SERAP demands

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has urged President Bola Tinubu to take strong action against the injustice surrounding the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election. The group called on the President to support reforms that will protect Nigeria’s democracy. In a letter dated June 14, 2025 an,d signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation urged Tinubu to set up a presidential panel of enquiry to investigate the unlawful annulment of the 1993 election and identify individuals responsible for what it described as “deliberate violations of Nigerians’…

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2027: “Appoint honest, neutral Nigerians as electoral commissioners”, SERAP to Tinubu

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SERAP to Tinubu

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently nominate qualified Nigerians of unquestionable integrity, who are not members of any political party, as replacements for the alleged APC members currently serving as Resident Electoral Commissioners. SERAP also urged the President to submit the names of such nominees to the Senate for confirmation ahead of the 2027 general elections. In an issued statement signed and released by SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare yesterday, the organisation further requested that President Tinubu direct the Attorney General…

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SERAP sues NNPCL over ‘missing’ N500bn oil funds 

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SERAP sues NNPCL

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) over an alleged missing N500bn. The rights group said the NNPCL was unable to account for and explain the whereabouts of the money which it failed to remit to the Federation Account between October 2024 and December 2024. The suit followed the recent allegations by the World Bank that out of the N1.1tn revenue from crude sales and other income in 2024, the NNPCL only remitted N600bn, leaving a deficit of…

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SERAP sues CBN over alleged failure to disclose LG allocations

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SERAP sues CBN

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), “over the failure to disclose the details of any direct payments to the 774 local government councils in Nigeria, including the amounts sent to each council”. SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, said the group’s suit followed a landmark judgment by the Supreme Court last July, which held that allocations from the Federation Account with the CBN must be paid directly to democratically elected local government…

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NNPCL: SERAP urges Ojulari to invite EFCC, ICPC to probe missing ₦500bn

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SERAP urges probe

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPCL), Bayo Ojulari,  “to account for and explain the whereabouts of the missing ₦500 billion, which the NNPCL failed to remit to the Federation Account, between October 2024 and December 2024, as revealed by the World Bank”. SERAP urged Ojulari “to identify those suspected to be involved, surcharge them for the full amount involved, and hand them over to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC)…

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“Cybercrime Act now Tinubu Govt.’s weapon of tyranny” – SERAP, Editors cry out

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SERAP, Editors

A storm of criticism is sweeping through Nigeria’s media and civil rights landscape as the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) have launched a scathing attack on the Tinubu administration over the “draconian” use of the Cybercrimes Act to silence dissent. In a powerful joint declaration delivered on World Press Freedom Day, the two bodies accused federal and state authorities of using the controversial law to criminalise journalism, muzzle free speech and terrorise critics, calling for the immediate release of all unlawfully detained…

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Alleged ₦167bn MDAs fraud: SERAP sues Tinubu over failure to prosecute contractors

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SERAP Tinubu

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over “the failure to direct the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, to name and ensure the prosecution of the contractors who collected over ₦167 billion from 31 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) but failed to execute any projects”. Joined in the suit as Respondent is the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, (SAN). In the suit, filed last Friday at the Federal High Court, Lagos,…

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SERAP sues FG, NCC over 50% telecoms tariff hike

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SERAP sues FG, NCC

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has filed a lawsuit against the President Bola Tinubu administration and the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC), over what it described as the “arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, and unreasonable” 50% increase in telecom tariffs. Recall that the NCC recently approved the tariff hike, which raised the cost of a one-minute call from ₦11 to ₦16.5, the price of 1GB of data from ₦287.5 to ₦431.25, and SMS charges from ₦4 to ₦6. The hike has sparked widespread criticism, with SERAP leading legal opposition to…

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