LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, 261 concerned Nigerians, civil society and media groups have filed a lawsuit against the National Broadcasting Commission and Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. The litigants are asking the court to declare as arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional the N3m fine imposed on each of Channels,…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent a letter to the World Bank President, David Malpass, urging him to demand that the Nigerian government account for the spending of $114.28million grant for COVID-19. Malpass was also asked to put pressure on governors to accept voluntary scrutiny by Nigerians and civil…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Dr Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health and Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), over “their failure to account for the public funds and other resources so far spent and used to combat the spread of…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched legal action against Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over the “brutal crackdown, repression, and grave violations and abuses of the human rights of the people of Rivers…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 192 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, and all members of the House from spending an estimated N5.04 billion to buy 400 exotic Toyota Camry…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS No fewer than 6,721 concerned Nigerians as well as socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough (EiE) have sued the National Assembly to stop it from spending N5.5billion to buy luxury cars for principal officials. The case which has been filed at the Federal High Court in…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new public survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past 5 years. Of the five major public institutions surveyed, the police emerge as the most corrupt, with the power sector identified as the second most corrupt…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to “stop the Senate President Bukola Saraki from paying former Plateau State governor, Senator Joshua Dariye N14.2 million monthly allowances while he serves out a 10-year prison sentence for corruption because such payment violates…