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SERAP asks court to force governors to publish pension details since 1999

Ihesiulo Grace 15 January 2020 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to order the 36 state governors in Nigeria to “publish details and breakdown of payment of pensions to each of the former governors and other ex-officials, and the names and number

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Declaring assets publicly is not in our laws, Adesina tells SERAP

Ihesiulo Grace 7 January 2020 0

Declaring publicly is not in our laws; it can only be a voluntary thing.” Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, has said. Adesina speaking on Channels television said that President Muhammadu Buhari can not asked by any law, to declare his asset openly. Adesina reacting to Socio-Economic Rights and […]

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SERAP to Buhari, Osinbajo, govs: publish assets within 7 days

Ihesiulo Grace 6 January 2020 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information requests to President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, 36 state governors and their deputies, urging them to use their good offices to: “provide information on summary of the assets, specifically property and income, contained in your asset declaration forms

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SERAP urges Buhari to obey all court orders, welcomes release of Sowore, Dasuki

Ihesiulo Grace 25 December 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed the announcement by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari ordering the release of #RevolutionNow protest convener, Mr. Omoyele Sowore and the immediate-past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, from custody. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar

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Breaking: SERAP petitions UN over violent attacks on protesters in Abuja

Ihesiulo Grace 24 December 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Mr. Clement Voule, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to peaceful assembly and association urging him to “publicly express concerns about the growing human rights violations and abuses in Nigeria and call on the authorities to end violent attacks on peaceful protesters and to take urgent measures […]

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$460m Abuja CCTV project: How SERAP won round one

Ihesiulo Grace 15 December 2019 0

There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing details of spending of the $460 million loan obtained in 2010 from China to fund the apparently failed Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) project, the names of contractors who collected money, and why Nigeria is re-paying the loan, may soon have some answers, as Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project […]

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Breaking: SERAP gives states 7-day ultimatum to disclose pensions’ payments to ex-govs, others

Ihesiulo Grace 9 December 2019 0

Scio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, Ekiti state governor Dr Kayode Fayemi and Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal, and other 34 governors urging them to use their “leadership position to urgently disclose details of payment of pensions […]

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SERAP, others hail ex-Gov. Orji Uzor Kalu’s prison sentence

Ihesiulo Grace 5 December 2019 0

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and some other civil society groups on Thursday lauded the 12-year prison sentence handed down to ex-Gov. Orji Kalu of Abia, by a Federal High Court in Lagos. Kalu is currently a Senator. Justice Mohammed Idris convicted Kalu on  39 counts of N7.2 billion fraud and money laundering […]

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SERAP sues FG over failed Chinese $460m Abuja CCTV project

Ihesiulo Grace 1 December 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning over failure to “disclose information and specific documents on the total amount of money paid to contractors from the $460 million loan obtained in 2010 from China to fund the apparently failed Abuja

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Sowore: SERAP petitions African Commission over ‘harassment of sureties, Falana’

Ihesiulo Grace 24 November 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Mrs Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the commission’s members requesting them: “to urgently intervene and put pressure on the Nigerian authorities and their agents to immediately end the intimidation and harassment of detained journalist

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Stop blackmailing Nigeria over Sowore, CSO warns SERAP

Ihesiulo Grace 21 November 2019 0

By Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The Social Society for Peace and Social Justice (NSPSJ) has come hard on the Social Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over what they described as multiple and bare faced lies delibrlately spurned to destabilize  the  country by giving it a bad image before Nigerians and the International Community.  Addressing a […]

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Sowore: Archbishop of Canterbury replies SERAP

Ihesiulo Grace 19 November 2019 0

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev. Justin Welby, has responded to an open letter by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), calling on him to use his good offices and friendship with President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on him to obey the judgment of the court ordering the release of activists Omoyele Sowore and […]

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Bayelsa/Kogi elections: SERAP asks ICC to probe APC, PDP officials

Ihesiulo Grace 17 November 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) “to investigate whether the persistent crimes of corruption, violence, and killings during elections in Nigeria, most recently in Bayelsa and Kogi states, and the repeated failure of the Nigerian authorities to address the crimes amount to violence against Nigerians

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SERAP asks Archbishop of Canterbury to intervention in Sowore’s case

Ihesiulo Grace 11 November 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal Welby urging him to use his good offices and leadership and his “friendship with President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on him to obey court orders most recently involving activists Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare who […]

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Within 14 days SERAP seeks probe of monthly federal allocations to LGs

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, and/or appropriate anti-corruption agencies to urgently investigate corruption allegations in the use of the monthly federal allocations to the 774 local

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Battle to compel CCB to publish Buhari, others asset: SERAP wins round one

Ihesiulo Grace 2 October 2019 0

There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing details of asset declarations of presidents and state governors may soon have some answers, as the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has won the latest round in the legal battle to compel the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to disclose details of asset declarations submitted to it […]

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Implement report on judiciary’s financial autonomy SERAP urges Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 30 September 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his good offices and leadership position to “urgently publish and fully implement the recommendations of the report on financial autonomy of state legislature and judiciary submitted to you in June 2019.” SERAP said: “In the context […]

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SERAP hails Sowore’s release

Ihesiulo Grace 24 September 2019 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed decision by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja ordering the immediate release of the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, from the custody of the Department of State Service as “a victory for the rule of law, human rights and judicial independence.” […]

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SERAP to Adamu: Refer Cross River Basin to EFCC, ICPC over ‘widespread corruption’

Ihesiulo Grace 3 December 2018 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, urging him to use his good office and leadership position to “urgently refer the allegations of widespread and systemic corruption involving the management and leadership of the Cross River Basin Development Authority (CRBDA) to the

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Metele attack: SERAP writes Buhari, seeks probe of military spending

Ihesiulo Grace 26 November 2018 0

The Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has appealed to the President to urgently set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the spending of defence and military budgets between 1999 and 2018. In an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, SERAP says the purpose of the investigation is to promote transparency and accountability in […]