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Just in: SERAP to Buhari: Rein in Lai Mohammed, NBC over threat to shut down broadcast stations

For threatening to close media space and limit freedom of expression, the Minister of Information and Culture, President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to...

Naira redesign: SERAP to Buhari: Obey Supreme Court’s order, direct CBN to immediately implement order

Worried about President Muhammadu Buhari’s reticence on the Supreme Court’s judgment on Naira redesign policy three days after, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability...

Poll rigging, violence: SERAP writes US Pres. Biden, wants visa ban, other sanctions for perpetrators

Peeved by violence that trailed Saturday’s polls in some parts of the country, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the US...

Alleged flouting of Supreme Court order: Rights group hauls Buhari to court

For declaring old N500 and N1,000 banknotes non-legal tenders contrary to the interim injunction granted by the Supreme Court, President Muhammadu Buhari has...

N228.1bn budget for 469 NASS members scandalous, outrageous, cut it now — SERAP

"SERAP urged them to propose a refreshed budget for the National Assembly that would reflect the current economic realities in the country, address...

Reverse hike in electricity tariff now or face litigation, SERAP tells Pres. Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to intervene in the furtive raise of electricity tariff in December 2022 by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory...

Nine oil-producing states’ governors in trouble over Buhari’s N625bn largesse as SERAP sues them

For failing to account for the N625 billion oil derivation refunds paid to them by the Federal Government, the nine governors of the...

SERAP hauls Buhari to court over trillions of Naira sunk into poverty alleviation, social safety-nets

For failing to investigate the several trillions of Naira allegedly spent on all social safety-nets and poverty alleviation programmes and projects between 2015...

2023: Arrest politicians buying up PVCs now, SERAP urges Buhari

In demonstration of his avowed commitment to a free and transparent poll in 2023, President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to direct appropriate...

Probe trillions of Naira ecological funds by government at all levels from 2001 to date, SERAP tells Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has been chided for his apparent failure and lack of political will to probe trillions of Naira ecological funds by...

Cyber stalking: Amid public outcry, Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, releases imprisoned varsity student

After public outrage at First Lady, Aisha Buhari’s order to arrest and prosecute a university student, Aminu Adamu, over his twitter post about...

Detention of Aminu Adamu by Aisha Buhari: NANS threatens nationwide protest

The arrest and detention of Aminu Adamu over an alleged defamatory post  against the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has drawn...

Mass poverty: SERAP urges probe of Buhari’s govt’s impactless, bootless social safety nets, pro-poor interventions

Perturbed by a Federal Government’s agency’s report that 133 million Nigerians are poor and ravaged by poverty, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project...

100 days to 2023 polls: Attacks on INEC offices worries SERAP, urges Buhari to arrest, prosecute sponsors

The Federal Government has been urged to direct the appropriate law enforcement agencies to identify and arrest the perpetrators and sponsors of recent...

Pay varsity lecturers salary backlog or risk litigation, SERAP tells Buhari

"Paying half salaries to ASUU members solely for exercising their human rights is patently unlawful and incompatible with the Nigerian Constitution 1999 [as...

Atiku, Obi, Tinubu others should publish sources of campaign funds, SERAP insists

Ahead of the February 2023 presidential poll, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the  presidential candidates to direct their campaign...