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- 22 Jun 2013
Archivist Ties Successful FoI Regime to Records Mgt
Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB) in line with its mandate to promote records and archives management for human development in Lagos State and the entire country held the third edition…
- 1 Sept 2021
EU, British Council to Train Online Publishers on FOI Act
No fewer than 50 publishers of online newspapers are expected in Abuja, Thursday for capacity building on the provisions and application of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information Act. The training is…
- 5 Dec 2021
SERAP Drags FG to Court for Shutting Down Telecom Networks
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the court for “an order of perpetual injunction to restrain President Muhammadu Buhari and Isa Pantami, minister of…
- 24 Dec 2020
FOI: NGO Drags Bank to Court over Information
Citizens Awareness against Corruption and Social Vices Initiative (CAACASVI), anti-corruption vanguard group, has sued a bank for non disclosure of information, under the Freedom of Information (FOI)…
- 15 Feb 2013
NIMASA Trains Staff on Implementation of FOI Act
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has trained some of its staff on information handling under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2011 regime. Hajyia Lami Tumaka, deputy…
- 21 Aug 2018
MRA Inducts NSE into its ‘FOI Hall of Shame’
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) monday accused the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) of showing complete nonchalance towards the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 as it inducted the institution into its…
- 17 Jul 2017
Information Ministry Bags “FOI Hall of Shame” Award
The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture on Monday joined the growing list of public officials and institutions accused of undermining the effectiveness of the Freedom of Information (FOI)…
- 15 Sept 2014
SERAP Asks CBN to Provide Information on Money Laundering to Boko Haram
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has issued a Freedom of Information request to Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) asking him to “urgently…
- 23 Mar 2016
FG Unveils FoI Website
Federal government on Wednesday in Abuja launched a re-designed Bureau of Public Service Reform (BPSR) website with a freedom of information portal to receive FOI requests. The initiative was…
- 29 Jun 2017
FoI: PIN Gets Leave in Case against FG over Spying Satellites
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted Paradigm Initiative, the leave to apply for judicial relief and compelled the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to show cause on its refusal…
- 10 Nov 2017
CSO Sends FoI Request To NCC
Following the alleged plans to block online news sites, the Paradigm Initiative has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Nigerian Communications Commission asking the Commission to…
- 12 Aug 2018
Lift ban on radio station, Falz’s ‘This is Nigeria’; SERAP urges NBC
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) “to immediately lift the ban on Jay FM 101.9 Jos, stopping the radio station from…
- 19 Mar 2023
SERAP Asks Court to Stop Shutdown Of Broadcast Stations
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain the federal government from shutting down broadcast stations in Nigeria over their…
- 10 Aug 2025
SERAP, Editors Sue Niger Governor over Badeggi FM Shutdown Threat
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) have filed a lawsuit against Umar Bago, Niger State Governor, and the National Broadcasting Commission…
- 20 Feb 2018
MRA Inducts TCN into ‘Hall of Shame’ for Power Outages
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has named the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) as this week’s inductee into the Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame for leaving Nigerians in the dark over its…
- 18 Jul 2021
SERAP Asks FG to Rescind Gag Order on Terrorist Attacks Reporting
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to use his leadership position to withdraw the National Broadcasting…
- 13 Jan 2019
HEDA Demands Details of CBN, MTN Settlement of $8.1Bn Repatriation Feud
Human and Environmental Development Agenda Resource Centre (HEDA), a non-governmental organization has invoked a Freedom of Information Act on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), demanding for…
- 25 Jul 2025
NDPC Hides MultiChoice Privacy Violation Details Despite FOI Request- FIJ
Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has refused to release details of the data and privacy rights violation for which it fined MultiChoice Nigeria, despite receiving a Freedom of Information…
- 20 Jun 2017
CSO Raises Alarm, Sues FG for Spying on Nigerians with Satellites
A Civic Society Organization (CSO) has dragged the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to court seeking judicial review of the Ministry’s alleged refusal to attend to Freedom of Information…
- 25 Oct 2017
MRA Inducts Federal Civil Service Commission into ‘FOI Hall of Shame’
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today inducted the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) into its “Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame”, accusing the Government’s oversight body for the civil…
- 22 Feb 2018
FG Restates Commitment to Press Freedom
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture, has restated the federal government's commitment to the freedom of the press, saying the media has nothing to fear from the present…
- 6 Feb 2024
Group Condemns Internet Shut-down in Senegal
Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has denounced, in the strongest terms possible, the order for Internet shutdown by the Senegalese authorities shortly after President Macky Sall postponed the nation’s…
- 2 Aug 2024
#EndBadGovernance Protests: Coalition Condemns Internet Disruptions in Nigeria
A coalition made up of 36 different civil society organizations and interest groups have petitioned federal government of Nigeria through its Ministries, Departments & Agencies (MDA's) chastising…
- 14 Aug 2022
PIN Condemns Internet Shut Down in Sierra Leone
Paradigm Initiative, PIN, has condemned the internet shutdown that occurred in Sierra Leone following political protests that erupted. In a statement signed by Khadijah El-Usman, Programs Officer,…
- 1 Jun 2025
SERAP Sues NNPC over Alleged Missing ₦500Bn, Seeks Accountability
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited over its failure to account for the alleged missing ₦500…
- 12 Mar 2023
2023 Elections: SERAP Gives Buhari 48 Hours to Withdraw Threat to Shut Down Broadcast Stations
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting…
- 6 Jun 2021
SERAP Urges Commonwealth to Sanction Nigeria over Twitter Ban
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to Hon. Patricia Scotland, secretary-general of the Commonwealth, urging her to apply the Commonwealth Charter to…
- 9 Apr 2023
SERAP Sue Buhari Over N5m Fine on Channels TV for Interview with Datti Baba-Ahmed
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the N5 million fine…
- 26 Jan 2025
SERAP Drags Tinubu, Others to Court over ”Arbitrary” Telecom Tariff Hike
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, over the alleged ”arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, and unreasonable 50…
- 24 Apr 2022
SERAP Sues Buhari, Ministers over Failure to Unblock Lines of 72m Subscribers
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari and two Ministers “over the failure to unblock the phone lines of over 72 million…