By Ola Modupe (LAGOS) – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, to withdraw ‘impermissible conditions on Twitter.’ This followed President Buhari’s statement in his address to mark Nigeria’s 61th independence anniversary, that the Federal Government would only lift the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria if certain conditions, including concerns around national … Read more
By Paul Adaji (ABUJA) – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to cause the immediate publication of the names of those suspected of looting N6trillion (about $14.583 billion) meant for development projects in the oil producing Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Specifically, SERAP would want the Nigerian President to direct the … Read more
By Ola Modupe (LAGOS) – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to immediately reverse the apparently unjustified suspension of internet and telecommunication networks in Zamfara State, and 13 local government areas of Katsina State.” The … Read more
By Paul Adaji (ABUJA) – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC), to declare abduction of students in Nigeria by armed bandits a crime against humanity. In a petition it sent to the ICC Prosecutor, Mr Karim A. A. Khan, QC, the organisation called for investigation into “the growing cases … Read more
By Paul Adaji (ABUJA) – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos, seeking from from the Nigerian government, details of claims of payment of N729 billion (about $1.8 billion) to poor Nigerian as a palliative measure. In the suit number FHC/L/CS/853/2021 filed at the Federal … Read more
By Paul Adaji (ABUJA) – The controversy over an alleged missing of huge sums of money in departments and agencies (MDAs) in Nigeria has further heightened with the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), dragging President Muhammadu Buhari and other top government functionaries to court. This followed the filing of a lawsuit suit by the … Read more
By Ola Modupe (LAGOS) – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to use the N4.8billion budgetted for monitoring WhatsApp calls to pay the salaries of residents doctors in the country who are currently on strike. In the open letter dated 14 August, 2021, and signed by its deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, … Read more
By Paul Adaji (ABUJA) – Notable Nigerian advocacy group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to cause an investigation into how N881billion (about $2.133bn) was spent by some ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) without approval. In an open letter dated 7 August, 2021 and signed by its deputy director … Read more
By Jacob Kubeka (ABUJA) – Advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja order the slashing of what it called “jumbo allowances” of Nigeria’s President Muhamadu Buhari, governors of the 36 states and members of the two chambers of the National Assembly. In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/658/2021 … Read more
By Paul Adaji (ABUJA) – Notable advocacy group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia to order Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari and the country’s National Assembly, to withdraw bills to gag the media. Specifically, the group wants the African body to … Read more
By Paul Adaji (ABUJA) – The ECOWAS Court of Justice has restrained the Federal Government of Nigeria from prosecuting alleged violators of the recent ban it placed on the use of Twitter in the country. In a landmark ruling it gave today in Abuja, the ECOWAS Court “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and … Read more
By Jacob Kubeka (ABUJA) – The suspension of Twitter in Nigeria has continued to attracted varied reactions with notable advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians dragging the government of President Muhammadu to court to challenge the decision. Already, SERAP and the concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the … Read more
By Callistus Offor (ABUJA) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, urging her to “apply the Commonwealth Charter to hold the Nigerian government to account over the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, and the resulting repression of human rights particularly … Read more
By Jacob Kubeka (ABUJA) – An advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately rescind within 48 hours, the the suspension of Twitter’s Operations in Nigeria The Nigerian Government had earlier today announced that it has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of microblogging and social networking … Read more
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the UN Security Council and its members urging them to “urgently hold a special session on Nigeria and to visit the country to press the authorities to end continuing abductions of students and the increasing level of insecurity across … Read more
SERAP to Ajimobi: Repair Ayefele’s Fresh
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Governor, Oyo State requesting him to “immediately halt all further eviction and demolition of Fresh FM building and to show full respect for the safety and dignity of residents and owner of Fresh FM.
From OLA MODUPE, Lagos
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said the plan by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to share the $350million (around N115 billion) loot recovered from former military ruler, late Gen. Sani Abacha among estimated 300,000 households, with each getting around $14 (around N5,000) a month is “mis-targeted and would not bring any tangible benefits to the beneficiaries.”
From OLA MODUPE, Lagos
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to all the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva urging their delegation “to initiative and actively support the urgent holding of a special session of the Human Rights Council to address the ongoing killings of Nigerians and residents by suspected herdsmen and/or unknown persons in Nigeria, most recently in Plateau State where over 80 people were brutally murdered.”
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to initiate action to prosecute Nigeria’s federal law makers for cutting proposed funding for critical projects in the 2018 national budget.
From OLA MODUPE, Lagos
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola over what it described as failure to account for the spending on the privatisation of the electricity sector and the exact amount of post-privatisation spending on generation companies (GENCOS), distribution companies (DISCOS) and Transmission Company of Nigeria to date, and to explain if such spending came from budgetary allocations or other sources.
By PAUL ADAJI, Lagos
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to use his leadership position to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN, and/or appropriate anti-corruption agencies to without delay investigate the alleged payment of N17 billion to the National Assembly as ‘election expenses’ of its members to pass the 2015 budget, and if there is relevant and sufficient admissible evidence, prosecute anyone suspected to be involved.”
A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has revealed how “55 politicians, high-level public officials and leaders allegedly stole N1, 354tr between 2006 and 2013 from the nation’s treasury.” According to the report, “The amount of money embezzled, misappropriated or stolen by public officials and leaders in the private between 2013 … Read more
A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “drop the proposed policy to grant amnesty to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group in the interests of justice, as any amnesty programme for the group would be counter-productive, and constitute impunity for their members, which can only continue to undermine peace and stability in the country.”
By OLA MODUPE
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the African Union Chairperson and President of Rwanda Paul Kagame urging him to “urgently call an Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) to suspend the rights of membership of Cameroon from the AU to put pressure on the government to end alleged torture and ill-treatment of 47 political activists forcibly returned to Cameroon by the Nigerian authorities, enforced disappearances, politically motivated trials, and gross and systematic violations of citizens’ human rights in the country.”
By OLA MODUPE
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “strongly condemned the intimidation and harassment by the police of Kassim Afegbua, spokesman of General Ibrahim Babangida over a statement he issued on behalf of the former military president.”
By OLA MODUPE
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights requesting “the urgent intervention of the Bureau of the Commission to end the ongoing human rights violations of naturalized Nigerians, refugees and asylum seekers forcibly returned to their country by the Nigerian authorities.”
From OLA MODUPE
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Federal Civil Service Pensioners Association, and Association of Retired Local Government Staff and Primary School Teachers in Delta State have asked the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja to “order the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to deduct the pensions, salaries and gratuities of pensioners and workers across several states of Nigeria from the statutory allocations of the indebted state governments and pay same directly to the pensioners and workers on a-monthly basis.”
