The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a leading civil advocacy group in Nigeria, has urged the World Bank to suspend further loans to Nigeria’s 36 states until previous ones are accounted for. The group hinged its stance on what it termed recurring allegations of mismanagement of public funds by state governors, including loans which […]
A court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered Nigeria to change its cybercrime law by following concerns that it is being used to silence journalists and dissidents. The suit, which was filed by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a non-governmental organization, centred around Section 24 of the 2015 Cybercrime […]
The 2021 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) on Tuesday indicated that Nigeria’s ranking had worsened, rated 154 out of the 180 covered in the report, despite claims by the Buhari administration’s anti-corruption crusade. The latest rating showed that Nigeria steeped five places, scoring 24 out of 100 points. Addressing journalists on […]
Worried by the potential negative social and economic implications of the rising debt stock of Nigeria, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the leadership of the National Assembly to decline approval for the latest President Buhari’s request for a fresh $4 billion and €710 million foreign loans. Specifically, SERAP appealed to the […]