Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has condemned the “unconstitutional and illegal” fines of N3 million each imposed by the National Broadcasting Commission on Channels Television, Arise Television, and Africa Independent Television over their coverage of the #EndSARS protests. The acting Director-General of NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, had announced at a press conference in Abuja on […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has faulted the bill seeking to give leaders of federal and state Houses of Assembly immunity from prosecution for corruption. SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare in a statement on Tuesday, said that providing immunity for presiding officers against crimes of corruption was tantamount to ripping up the Constitution. Oluwadare […]
The Federal Government has agreed to publish details of spending and locations of projects on water and sanitation between 2010—2016, as well as details of allocations to the 36 states of the federation. This was indicated in a letter signed by the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, and made available to the Socio-Economic Rights […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode “to take steps to immediately reverse the unfair and discriminatory toll charges at the Lekki-Epe Expressway and Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge toll gates by the Lekki Concession Company, if the Lagos State government is not to run the risk of undermining the […]
Two days after the face-off between the operatives of the EFCC, SSS and the NIA, a group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Buhari to “urgently instruct the leadership of the SSS and NIA to allow anti-corruption agencies carry out their mandate without any interference whatsoever.” The group also condemned […]
For the governors’ failures to pay workers and pensioners their entitlements, a non governmental organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has dragged the Federal Government to the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS) Court, Abuja asking the court to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to deduct the pensions, salaries and gratuities of pensioners […]
There is prospect that Nigerians keen on knowing how exactly the National Assembly is run may soon have some answers, as Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has won the latest round in the legal battle to compel the Senate President, Bukola Sakari and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dogara Yakubu, to account […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has confirmed that its representatives met with the Senate President Bukola Saraki to discuss issues relating to details of annual salaries and allowances of lawmakers. In a statement by Timothy Adewale SERAP deputy director, the organization said that, “While we appreciate the expressed commitment by Saraki to transparency and […]
Days after a nongovernmental organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), petitioned the International Criminal Court in the Hague, over allegations of widespread, systematic and large-scale corruption in the electricity sector since the return of democracy in 1999, strong indication emerged on Wednesday that the matter is given utmost consideration. SERAP is asking the […]