Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project Archives

Off-cycle Elections: SERAP Drags INEC To Court Over Offenders In Bayelsa, Kogi, Imo States

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “over the failure to arrest and prosecute suspected perpetrators...

Energy1 year ago

FOI: ‘Disclose How Much Oil Nigeria Produces, Exports Daily,’ SERAP To NNPC

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kolo Kyari, to “promptly publish...

NEWS1 year ago

JUST IN: SERAP Petitions World Bank Against Lending To States

The Socio-Economic Rights And Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the World Bank to desist from further lending to the 36 states which make the Nigerian...

NEWS1 year ago

Off Season Elections: SERAP, Netizens Decry Shambolic Exercise

With majority of the voting in the off season gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi held on Saturday done, concerned stakeholders are left wondering why...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the nine oil-producing states in Nigeria to give account of how they spent N625.43billion oil derivation refunds the Federal Government gave them. Recall that the federal government recently paid N625.43billion oil derivation refunds to the governors of Edo, Abia, Rivers, Ondo, Imo, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River and Delta states. The payments covered 13 percent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds. The refunds date from 1999 to 2021. In a letter signed by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP asked the governors to “provide and widely publish details of spending of the oil derivation refunds of N625billion recently paid to them by the federal government of Nigeria, including details and locations of projects executed with the money. “We would be grateful if the recommended measures are taken within seven days of the receipt and/or publication of this letter. If we haven’t heard from you by then, SERAP shall take all appropriate legal actions to compel you and your state to comply with our request in the public interest,” SERAP’s letter reads in part.

NEWS2 years ago

N625bn Refunds: SERAP Calls On Nine Governors To Give Accounts

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the nine oil-producing states in Nigeria to give account of how they spent N625.43billion oil derivation refunds...

Two hospitalized as Unknown gunmen attack INEC officials in Enugu

NEWS3 years ago

Voter Registration: Court Bars INEC from June Ending Date

By Edozie Obasi-Eze A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot end its continuous voter registration on...