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SOCIO-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over “missing subsidy payments”. The organisation is seeking a probe of allegations that $2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are unaccounted for. The suit followed the grim allegations documented by the Auditor-General …

THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has pleaded with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to create a presidential panel of inquiry to promptly investigate allegations that $2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion in public funds, from oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments, went missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and …

AHEAD of Monday’s inauguration, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu to make public his assets. SERAP disclosed this on Sunday in a statement by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare. The group called on the incoming administration to walk the talk concerning its electoral …

SOCIO-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, asking the court to “declare arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional the N5million fine imposed on Channels Television over a recent interview with the Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.” …

SOCIO-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to use his “good offices and leadership position to immediately enforce the judgment by the ECOWAS Court of Justice prohibiting prosecutions of anyone on the grounds of ‘insulting’ or ‘stalking’ public officials online.” SERAP also urged him to “enforce …

THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged United States President Joe Biden to exercise his powers to ban Nigerian officials, politicians, and other perpetrators and sponsors of violence during the just concluded elections. SERAP also urged Biden to revoke the visas of anyone suspected to be responsible for cases …

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), over “the failure to reverse the unlawful, unjust, and unreasonable increase in electricity tariff, and to probe the spending of public funds as ‘investments and bailouts’ to DisCos and GenCos since 2005.” Joined …

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to thoroughly, effectively and transparently investigate spending on all social safety-nets and poverty alleviation programmes and projects executed between 2015 and 2022.” Joined in the suit as respondent is the Attorney-General of …

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned the deductions from the October salaries of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) members. The body urged PresidentASUU Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, and the acting Accountant General, Sylva Okolieaboh to reverse the deductions. SERAP also …

THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on all presidential candidates ahead of the 2023 presidential election to demonstrate leadership by instructing their “campaign councils and political parties to regularly and widely publish the sources of their campaign funding.” In an open letter at the weekend, signed by …