The Federal Government has announced plans to publish names of treasury looters as ordered by a Federal High Court in Lagos. The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting. The court had ordered the Federal Government to…
UN to Plead for 54 Convicted soldiers
The United Nations has disclosed plans to take appropriate action over the imminent execution of 54 soldiers sentenced to death by the Nigerian Army. In a letter to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Summary or Arbitrary Executions, stated that the UN is considering appropriate action, including…
SERAP, Osinubi, Others to Receive Soyinka Awards
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ, will on Tuesday, December 9 honour the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, headed by Tokunbo Mumuni and Ademola Osinubi, Managing Director of The Punch Newspapers with its honorary Anti-corruption defender award and lifetime award for journalistic excellence respectively. These as well as merit awards will be…
SERAP Sues CBN Over Non-Disclosure of Boko Haram Sponsors
The Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has dragged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, before a Federal High Court sittingin Lagos over its failure to expose those involved in alleged money launderingused to fund theBoko Haram terrorist group. In a suit filed by SERAP with number FHC/L/CS/1547/2014, the group is asking for a declaration that…
SERAP Seeks UN Support Over Attack on Judiciary
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged the United Nations, UN, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, to investigate the recent reports of attack on courts and judges in Ekiti State. SERAP’s executive director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, in a petition dated September 29, 2014 said, “Apart from violating the rights…
Rallying Against Subsidy Scam
A coalition of human rights activists and non-governmental organisations has taken up the gauntlet to enforce the recovery of various huge sums of money diverted from the Federation Account It is a rare collaboration but one that has the common good of Nigerians as its sole objective. Femi Falana, fiery Lagos lawyer and counsel to…
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