The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written an open letter to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and other presidential aspirants across all the political parties ahead of 2023 general election. In the said letter, SERAP implored all the aspirants to publish details of their assets and liabilities without wasting time […]
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has told the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele to resign his position immediately. SERAP said Emefiele should resign in line section nine of the CBN Act. According to SERAP, Emefiele’s involvement in politics would distract him from carrying out his duties. SERAP tweeted: “BREAKING: […]
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to use his “good offices to urgently review and withdraw the pardon granted to former governors of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, and Taraba State, Rev Jolly Nyame who are serving jail terms for corruption.” Also SERAP urged him to“propose constitutional amendment to the […]
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has given Nigeria’s Federal Government a 48-hour ultimatum to reverse the decision to block the mobile lines of 72 million Nigerians. SERAP urged Buhari to “direct the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), to immediately reverse the apparently unlawful decision […]
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has said it will sue President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration over the plan to borrow N2 trillion. It could be recalled that Nigeria is currently facing a burden of N33 trillion debt. SERAP in a post on its official Twitter account persistent borrowing is antithetical to the constitutional […]
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project , (SERAP,) has written a petition to the United Nations, UN, over*.m plans by the Federal Government to cut the budgetary allocation of education and health care sectors. SERAP in its petition also called on the UN to prevail upon the Federal Government to drop the plan to spend […]
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A new report by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has revealed how several allegations of corruption like: unfair allocation of grades, contract inflation, truncation of staff’s salary on the payroll, employment of unqualified staff, and the certificate scandal in federal universities are neither thoroughly investigated nor the culprits punished. Other instances are allegations of […]
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Spokesman to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has rubbished claims by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) that Jonathan’s administration wasted electricity funds to the tune of N11 trillion alongside preceding administrations. He said the budget of the ministry of power under Jonathan was not up to N400 billion. SERAP had, in the […]
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N11 trillion electricity fund was squandered by the administrations of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, this is as alleged by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan were in charge of the country between 1999 and 2015. In a report titled ‘From darkness to darkness: How Nigerians are […]
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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the federal government to “immediately release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered and the circumstances under which funds were recovered, as well as the exact amount of funds recovered from each public official.” The judgment […]
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