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- 30 Jun 2024
SERAP: CBN Gets 7 Days Ultimatum to Account for ‘Missing’ N100Bn Dirty Notes, other public funds
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), “to account for and explain the whereabouts of the over N100…
- 27 Mar 2022
SERAP Wants Privacy Details of Election Data from INEC
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr. Mahmood Yakubu, chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to publish the details of safeguards and mechanisms…
- 15 Oct 2023
SERAP Urges Lawmakers to Reject Social Media Regulation Bill
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the lawmakers to reject the recently reintroduced social media regulation bill which if passed would unduly restrict the rights to…
- 25 Feb 2026
SERAP Says Phone Tapping Law Violates Human Rights, Calls for Withdrawal
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has cautioned that existing interception and surveillance regulations in the country could be deployed against civilians and critics of the…
- 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…
- 24 Jan 2021
SERAP Asks FG to Publish Details of Planned N729Bn payments to 24.3m Nigerians
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Sadia Umar-Farouk, minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, to publish details of the proposed…
- 23 Feb 2025
SERAP Drags CBN to Court over ATM Fee Hike
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the failure to reverse the increase in Automated Teller Machine (ATM)…
- 19 Jul 2026
SERAP to Sue NASS over Bill Empowering NDPC to Regulate Social Media
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened to drag the National Assembly to court over a proposed amendment to the Nigeria Data Protection Act, which it alleges could…
- 30 Mar 2025
SERAP Asks National Assembly to Drop Bill to Jail Nigerians who Fail to Vote
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Godswill Akpabio, Senate president, and Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the House of Representatives, “to immediately withdraw the…
- 26 Oct 2020
SERAP Kicks as NBC Slams Fines on Channels, AIT, Arise TV
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), leading Nigerian rights group, has given the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) 48 hours to cancel the fines imposed on three TV channels…
- 10 Apr 2022
SERAP Gives FG 48 Hours to Unblock Unlinked SIM Cards
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the federal government to unblock millions of SIM cards not linked to the National Identification Number…
- 5 Jul 2026
SERAP Asks Akpabio, Abbas for Explain N1.3Bn Budgeted for ‘Fictitious’ Presidential Council
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given Godswill Akpabio, Senate President, and Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the House of Representatives, seven days to explain how over N1.3…
- 31 Mar 2024
SERAP Gives Governors & Wike 7 Days To Account For ₦5.9trn, $4.6bn Loans
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigeria’s 36 state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike to “widely publish copies of…
- 11 May 2026
SERAP Demands Probe of Disappearance of N27.9Bn from USPF, Calls Out Minister, Secretary of Fund
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to immediately order an investigation into the alleged disappearance or diversion of N26.9 billion…
- 1 Mar 2026
SERAP Asks FCCPC to Investigate Google, Meta, Others over Alleged Rights Abuses
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) “to urgently investigate allegations that Google, Meta…
- 7 Jan 2024
SERAP Urges Tinubu to Probe Payment of N585.2m Grant into Private Account
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and…
- 16 Nov 2025
SERAP Demands Answers over Missing N3 Trillion in CBN Account
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), “to promptly account for and explain the whereabouts of the…
- 16 May 2021
SERAP Asks NASS to Identify Lawmakers Involved in Missing N4.1Bn
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the leadership of the National Assembly to probe the N4.1 billion budgeted for the parliament alleged to be missing. SERAP in a…
- 3 Dec 2023
SERAP Urges Akpabio to Reject Wike’s plan to spend N15bn on ‘a befitting residence’ for VP
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio to use his leadership position “to promptly reject the plan by the Minister of the FCT,…
- 10 Mar 2024
SERAP Urges NCC to Reverse Directive to Block Phone Lines
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Dr. Aminu Maida, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) “to immediately revoke the apparently…
- 25 Aug 2024
SERAP Asks State Governors, Wike to Disclose Details of Chinese Loans
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Nigeria’s 36 state governors and Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory, to provide detailed information regarding…
- 25 May 2025
SERAP Drags CBN to Court over Alleged Failure to Disclose LG Allocations
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) “over the failure to disclose the details of any direct payments to the 774…
- 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…
- 16 Jan 2022
SERAP Challenges Buhari to Provide Agreement With Twitter
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to provide a copy of the agreement the federal government had with Twitter, social media company. …
- 12 Jan 2025
SERAP Drags FG, Govs to ECOWAS Court over ‘Misuse of Cybercrimes Act’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian government the 36 states over the Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act 2024. SERAP is arguing that “the…
- 3 Dec 2023
SERAP Tells Akpabio to Reject Wike’s Proposal in 2024 Budget
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Mr Godswill Akpabio, Senate president, to use his leadership position “to promptly reject the plan by Nyesom Wike, minister of the…
- 13 Mar 2022
SERAP Sues Buhari Over Failure to Stop Unlawful Data Access
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Muhammadu Buhari over the failure to review and rescind his reported approval for security agencies to access people’s…
- 11 Aug 2024
SERAP Urges Tinubu to Probe $1,5bn World Bank Loan to States, $3bn Chinese Loan
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu, to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) and…
- 31 Jul 2022
Terrorism Reporting: SERAP Gives Buhari 48 Hours to Withdraw Threat to Sanction BBC, Daily Trust
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture to withdraw the threat to…
- 1 Oct 2023
SERAP Sues 36 Govs over Failure to Account for N72Bn Subsidy Palliative
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) says it has filed a lawsuit against the 36 state governors in Nigeria over “their failure to account for the spending of the N72 billion…