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- 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…
- 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…
- 14 Mar 2021
SERAP Sues Buhari, FG over Plan to Borrow N895Bn from Dormant Accounts
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain and stop President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government from borrowing an…
- 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…
- 8 Nov 2020
#EndSARS: SERAP, Others Asks Court to Reject ‘Suit on Twitter Shut Down’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 365 concerned Nigerians have filed an application before the Federal High Court, Abuja, asking the court to “reject a suit seeking to shut…
- 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…
- 9 May 2021
SERAP Asks FG to Probe N39Bn Duplicated, Mysterious Projects by MDAs
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to direct Mr Abubakar Malami, attorney general of the federation and minister of Justice and appropriate…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 3 Jul 2022
SERAP Asks FG to Recover Missing N105.7Bn to Fund Universities
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the federal government to urgently recover the missing N105.7 billion of public funds from ministries, departments and agencies…
- 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 Jan 2021
SERAP Fights FG over Plans to Take over Dormant Account Balances, Unclaimed Dividends
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his leadership position “to promptly drop the plan by the Federal…
- 28 Jan 2024
SERAP Calls on Govs, Wike to Account for N40trn LGA Allocations
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Sunday called on the 36 state governors in Nigeria and Mr Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, to “disclose…
- 21 Mar 2014
SERAP Asks US not to Hand Abacha’s $458m to FG
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), leading Nigerian rights group has petitioned the United States Justice Department urging it to give nearly half a billion dollars, alleged…
- 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…
- 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…
- 9 Feb 2025
SERAP Sues Tinubu over Alleged N167Bn Projects Fraud
President Bola Tinubu has been dragged to court by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), over alleged N167 billion project fraud. A statement made available to journalists by…
- 14 May 2023
SERAP tells World Bank to Suspend $800m loan to FG
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the World Bank President, Mr David Malpass, to suspend any disbursement of $800m loan to the Federal Government of Nigeria and ask…
- 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…
- 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…
- 18 May 2025
SERAP Asks Ojulari, NNPC CEO to Account for Missing N500Bn or Face Legal Action
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on Mr. Bayo Bashir Ojulari, group chief executive officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) Limited, to provide…
- 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…
- 11 Jan 2026
SERAP Sues INEC Over Alleged ₦55.9Bn Election Funds Diversion
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over the alleged failure to account for ₦55.9 billion reportedly…
- 8 Sept 2019
SERAP Seeks $10Bn for Victims of Xenophobia in South Africa
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Mrs Soyata Maiga, chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the commission’s members…
- 10 Jul 2022
SERAP Sues 36 State Governors for Underfunding Schools
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the 36 state governors of the federation before a court over their failure to redirect public funds budgeted to pay ex-governors…
- 26 Nov 2023
SERAP Asks World Bank to Suspend Loan Nigeria’s 36 States
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the World Bank to suspend loans to Nigeria’s 36 states until previous ones are accounted for. This is due to recurring…
- 19 Sept 2021
SERAP Urges NASS to Reject Buhari’s Fresh Loan Request
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the National Assembly to reject the fresh loan request of President Muhammadu Buhari. Last week, at the resumption of plenary on the…
- 12 Jul 2020
COVID-19: SERAP Asks Court to Compel Govs to Fund Healthcare with Security Votes
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to “direct and compel 36 state governors to use public funds budgeted for security…
- 21 Aug 2018
SERAP Threatens to Sue Gov Ajimobi Over Demolition Of Fresh FM Building
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has written to Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Governor, Oyo State requesting him to “immediately halt all further eviction and demolition of Fresh…