Top prominent human rights organisations and individuals, led by Femi Falana (SAN), have asked the Federal Government to end the killings in Zamfara State.
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an urgent appeal to two UN special rapporteurs urging them to “prevail upon the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has insisted that the Senate President. Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, must stop the payment of salaries and allowances to convicted Senator Joshua Dariye.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to “stop the Senate President Bukola Saraki from paying former Plateau State governor, Senator Joshua Dariye N14.2 million monthly allowances while he serves out a 10-year prison sentence for corruption because such payment violates Nigerian law and international obligations.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, Enough is Enough and BudgIT have sent a joint Freedom of Information request to Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria, requesting him to use his good offices and leadership position to “urgently provide information on the 2015, 2016 and 2017 budget
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued President Muhammadu Buhari over his “failure to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN, and/or appropriate anti-corruption agencies
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to use his “good offices and leadership position to urgently set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the spending of defence and military budgets between 1999 and 2018 in order to promote transparency and accountability in the sector.”
The report also revealed that the divestment of assets by international oil companies has not translated into commensurate increase in revenue arriving in the Nigerian Government’s coffers from taxes.
Falana spoke at an interactive Media Roundtable on Impact of Non-payment of Capital Gain Tax and Other Levies in the Oil and Gas Sector on the Socio-Economic Development of the country on Tuesday in Lagos.
The Court also ruled that Fashola be put on notice and adjourned the matter to November 20, 2018 for mention.
The Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, has finally fulfilled his promise to render account on spending on water projects across the country by providing the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project with detailed information on spending of billions of naira on 292 projects between 2010 and 2016.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “intensify his government crackdown on corrupt money and recovery of other illicit wealth by public officials and institutions to fund the proposed N65,000 national minimum wage by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), if he is to fulfil the needs of ordinary Nigerians who continue to struggle to make ends meet, and whom he has called his ‘constituency.’”
SERAP made the letter for the request to Adewole known in a statement on Sunday.
Apart from LUTH, the other two hospitals covered in the report “are the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi (NOHIL), and the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta (FMC).”
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it has powers to prosecute allegations of vote buying by both the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party during the recently concluded governorship election in Ekiti State but lacks the powers to arrest and investigate suspects.
The radio station, owned by popular musician, Yinka Ayefele, was demolished on Sunday before a court hearing scheduled for Monday at the Oyo State High Court.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Sule Kazaure, and the NYSC over the “failure to publish specific documents and information on Minister of Finance Mrs Kemi Adeosun’s application for NYSC exemption, and seeking to compel them to explain if Adeosun obtained any Exemption Certificate from the NYSC.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to provide information on specific details and documents on the exemption certificate granted to the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has petitioned David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression of the United Nations
SERAP said: “The authorities have a legal obligation under the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party to make sure that the returned Abacha loot is properly and efficiently used, both from the viewpoint of using asset recovery as a tool of ensuring justice to victims of corruption and breaking the cycle of grand corruption. But the plan to share the loot among households is mere tokenism and would neither have significant impact on poverty alleviation nor satisfy the twin objectives of justice and development.”