•Tinubu The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to reject the recently approved $1.08 billion World Bank loan and instead direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to promptly investigate the alle...
•Tinubu A former Senate President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Adolphus Wabara, yesterday, faulted President Bola Tinubu’s decision to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State. In a strongly worded statement yesterday, Wabara insisted that Tinubu’s actions violated the fundamental principles of Nig...
•Tinubu The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a non-profit organisation, has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to suspend the implementation of the increase in Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transaction fees, pending the hearing and determination of...
The Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, yesterday defended the decision to approve a 50 per cent tariff hike for telecom services, despite widespread backlash and legal threats from advocacy groups and subscribers. Minister Tijani, who appeared before lawmakers to defend the ministry’s budget, explained t...
•Tinubu The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given President Bola Tinubu 48 hours to reverse the recent 50% telcos tariff hike. SERAP, in a statement, said failure to do so by the Tinubu administration means they will be charged in court, reports Vanguard. “The Tinubu administration and telcos must immediately rever...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked President Bola Tinubu to direct the Police to stop harassing and threatening Amnesty International, because they (Amnesty International) were defending Nigerians’ rights. The call is coming against the backdrop of the Police’s demand for Amnesty International to apologise o...
The Socio-Economic Rights and AccountabilÂity Project (SERAP), a Lagos-based non-profit organisation, has urged the Nigerian NationÂal Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to acÂcount for and explain the whereabouts of the alleged missing N825 billion and $2.5 billion meant for ‘reÂfinery rehabilitation’ and other oil revenues, as docuÂmented in ...
A Federal Capital Territory court will, today, hear the bogus lawsuit brought by the Department of State Services, DSS, against Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP. Two senior lawyers, Tayo Oyetibo, SAN and Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN will represent SERAP in court before Justice Yusuf Halilu, Court 13, reports Vanguard. SERAP ...
•FCT minister, Nyesom Wike The Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project has threatened a lawsuit against the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, if he does not withdraw the ultimatum he issued to beggars in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Wike during the flag-off ceremony for access road construction in the Katampe District of the Feder...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has slammed a N5.5 billion defamation suit against a group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for allegedly making false claims that officials of the agency invaded the Abuja office of the group. In the suit, filed in the names of two of its officials – Sarah John […]

