ECOWAS Court to hear twitter ban suits on 9 July, 2021
07 july 2021 - 17:48:06Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice has fixed Friday, 9th July, 2021, to hear an application filed [...] Full text...
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice has fixed Friday, 9th July, 2021, to hear an application filed [...] Full text...
Court restrains Nigeria from arresting, prosecuting NGO over Twitter case
22 june 2021 - 23:06:37Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice Tuesday ordered the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and [...] Full text...
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ECOWAS court fixes judgement for June 29 on alleged unlawful detention of Nigerian journalist
28 april 2021 - 18:52:57Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice has scheduled 29th of June, 2021, for judgement in a suit [...] Full text...
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ECOWAS Court dismisses suit against Nigeria over killings since 2001
27 april 2021 - 15:08:13Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Monday dismissed a suit filed by a Nigerian non-governmental organisation [...] Full text...
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ECOWAS Court Judge proposes new approaches to improve enforcement of court decisions
14 september 2020 - 17:21:57Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A judge of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Dupe Atoki, has expressed concern at the [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Buhari gets seven-day ultimatum to give details of all foreign loans obtained and locations of projects executed
31 may 2020 - 17:21:06Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – A major anti-corruption group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has handed President Muhammadu Buhari [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's main opposition party, CSOs reject Buhari's travel ban
14 october 2018 - 10:41:55Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and civil society organisations on Sunday rejected the travel [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: 2013 bloody security raid costs Nigeria US$3.25 million
08 june 2016 - 19:20:12Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice has awarded US$200,000 as [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Ex-president Jonathan's finance minister, Okonjo-Iweala, FG, to account for missing N30 trillion
22 may 2016 - 15:18:00Lagos, Nigeria IPANA) - The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Nigeria, has ordered former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: SERAP seeks UN investigation in killing of muslim sect members by soldiers
17 december 2015 - 15:41:58Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The non-governmental organization, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sent an urgent appeal to Mr. [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Group seeks trial of corrupt ex-Governors
22 november 2015 - 10:25:10Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO tasks Obama on Nigeria's stolen assets
20 july 2015 - 09:42:45Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari arrives in the US for a series of engagements with officials [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO drags state/federal govts to ILO over unpaid salaries
21 june 2015 - 09:54:27Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged state governments and the Federal Government [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO prescribes UN sanction for South Africa for refusing to arrest al Bashir
15 june 2015 - 14:02:45Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian non-governmental organization the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the International [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO wants SA pressured to transfer al-Bashir to ICC
15 june 2015 - 09:25:13Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian NGO has called on the African Union (AU) leadership and Nigeria to put pressure [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Govt dragged to ECOWAS Court over suffering of IDPs
12 may 2015 - 10:25:16Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights & Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the country's federal government to the [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: 'ICC to probe President Zuma, Zulu King over xenophobia'
28 april 2015 - 12:31:38Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has decided to probe the xenophobic attacks against African immigrants in [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO drags SA to ICC over xenophobic attacks
23 april 2015 - 11:50:56Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested the Prosecutor of the International Criminal [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO tasks President-elect on corruption
09 april 2015 - 12:29:15Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has challenged President-elect Muhammadu Buhari to [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Finance Minister sued over missing 30 trillion naira
03 march 2015 - 14:39:07Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sued Minister of Finance [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Presidential candidates urged to endorse anti-corruption programme
18 january 2015 - 11:03:55Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of Nigeria's presidential polls on 14 Feb., a Nigerian NGO has called on the 11 [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: UN steps in to avert execution of condemned soldiers in Nigeria
04 january 2015 - 14:55:39Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN may have stepped in to avert the execution of the 54 Nigerian soldiers who [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO sues Apex bank over Boko Haram
14 october 2014 - 14:11:43Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: SERAP seeks UN intervention over attack on courts, judges
29 september 2014 - 13:32:19Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian non-governmental organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked Ms Gabriela Knaul, the [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Groups asks ICC to prosecute alleged Boko Haram sponsors
01 september 2014 - 10:00:17Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian non-governmental organisation Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Ms Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor, International [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO wants Education minister to probe teachers' stolen salaries, benefits
07 august 2014 - 15:07:52Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the Minister of Education, Mallam [...] Full text...
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Kenya: Rights body hails ECOWAS court decision on Nigerian forces
11 june 2014 - 12:08:47Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Tuesday's ECOWAS Court decision against the Nigerian security forces, who indiscriminately opened fire on peaceful protesters [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO condemns ban on 'bring back our girls' protests in Abuja
03 june 2014 - 13:08:33Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned the police ban on all protests [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO seeks UN Security Council sanctions against Boko Haram
11 may 2014 - 10:15:25Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the UN Security Council to impose [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: Continuing insecurity dominates media
26 april 2014 - 09:17:46Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's pledge to provide adequate security during the World Economic Forum on Africa, to [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO seeks UN intervention over abducted girls
24 april 2014 - 13:45:17Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the the UN to “urgently intervene'' [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO wants journos, rights defenders freed in Egypt
16 april 2014 - 09:29:44Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the African Commission on Human and [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: President Jonathan visits scene of deadly bombing (Update 3)
14 april 2014 - 13:42:46Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has visited the scene of Monday's bomb attack in the capital city [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO drags govt to UN over job stampede deaths
17 march 2014 - 14:09:41Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With about 20 people dead in stampede at various venues of a job test conducted by [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO drags Coca-Cola to UN over 'harmful' drinks
26 february 2014 - 12:56:24Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Nigerian subsidiaries of global soft [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO seeks probe of alleged missing US$20b oil money
09 february 2014 - 09:27:43Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the anti-graft Economic [...] Full text...
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Nigeria: NGO tasks Pres. Jonathan on fight against corrupt
02 january 2014 - 12:48:33Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has tasked President Goodluck Jonathan to implement a five-point programme against [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's slide in global corruption rating rankles civil society group
04 december 2013 - 13:48:36Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's slide in the 2013 global Corruption Perception Index (CPI) issued by Transparency International has confirmed [...] Full text...
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Group blasts Nigeria's presidency over Minister's armoured cars' scandal
03 november 2013 - 08:47:38Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the controversy rages on over the alleged purchase of two armoured cars worth 255 million [...] Full text...
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Group seeks sale of Nigeria Aviation Minister's armoured cars
20 october 2013 - 08:42:51Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the controversy over the reported purchase of two BMW armoured cars for Nigeria's Aviation Minister [...] Full text...
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NGO wants ICC to probe killing of school children in Nigeria
06 october 2013 - 09:04:07Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A non-governmental organization, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...] Full text...
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Nigeria civil society to resist govt's attempt to censor social media
29 september 2013 - 09:29:08Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian non-governmental organisation has urged the Nigerian government to drop its threat to censor social [...] Full text...
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Coalition petitions UN over higher electricity tariffs in Nigeria
08 september 2013 - 08:56:02Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A coalition of human rights activists, labour, journalists and lawyers have moved against the recent increase [...] Full text...
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NGO sues Nigerian govt over 700b Naira expenditure
21 july 2013 - 16:23:24Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Nigerian government over its failure to [...] Full text...
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NGO wants Nigeria sanctioned for failing to arrest al-Bashir
15 july 2013 - 17:46:47Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Monday asked International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor [...] Full text...
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African Commission asks Jonathan to rescind directive on execution of death row prisoners
04 july 2013 - 09:40:35Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Gambia-based African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has requested Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan to [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO wants death row prisoners' execution order withdrawn
26 june 2013 - 09:25:50Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian NGO, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the African Commission on Human [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO seeks moratorium on govt borrowing
27 may 2013 - 11:52:25Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the country's federal government to provide [...] Full text...
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Nigerian govt docks two journos on forgery charges
16 april 2013 - 22:59:45Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government on Tuesday charged two journalists with the private Leadership newspaper with a 10-count [...] Full text...
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African Commission urged to help stop attacks on Nigerian journos
16 april 2013 - 13:51:55Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Ms Pansy Tlakula, the Commissioner and [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO wants state pardon for convicted ex-state governor rescinded
13 march 2013 - 16:29:35Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organization Wednesday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to 'rescind without delay' the presidential pardon [...] Full text...
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Nigeria President tasked on ECOWAS Court ruling on Niger Delta pollution
19 february 2013 - 12:04:33Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has written to Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure enforcement [...] Full text...
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SERAP wants plea-bargaining procedure regulated in Nigeria
03 february 2013 - 11:53:05Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian non-governmental organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has said that plea the [...] Full text...
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NGO asks Nigerian President to show leadership, end corruption
06 january 2013 - 11:14:31Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Sunday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to [...] Full text...
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AI, SERAP laud ECOWAS court judgment on oil pollution in Nigeria
16 december 2012 - 10:59:22Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Non-governmental Organizations Amnesty International (AI) and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), have hailed Friday’s ECOWAS [...] Full text...
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Global rights body hails ECOWAS Court ruling on Niger Delta pollution
15 december 2012 - 17:43:51Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International Saturday hailed the ECOWAS Court's ruling which found the Nigerian government and multinational corporations [...] Full text...
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ECOWAS Court to deliver judgment in Nigeria oil pollution case Friday
13 december 2012 - 10:13:00Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice sitting in Nigeria's South-west city of Ibadan will deliver judgment [...] Full text...
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Group tasks Nigerian govt on poverty ahead of country's 52nd independence anniversay
30 september 2012 - 14:31:52Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of Monday's 52nd anniversary of Nigeria's independence, a civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability [...] Full text...
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NGO takes fight stop execution of Nigerians in Gambia to ECOWAS Court
12 september 2012 - 12:47:44Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian NGO, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has filed a suit at the ECOWAS [...] Full text...
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Group seeks to stop execution of Nigerians in Gambia
27 august 2012 - 13:43:36Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian non-governmental organization Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to [...] Full text...
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NGO slams Nigerian govt on poor budget implementation
31 july 2012 - 13:49:31Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian non-governmental organization has told the federal government to “come clean and acknowledge that its [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO heads to court over President Jonathan's assets declaration
10 july 2012 - 08:48:31Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum given to Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan and the country's [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO invokes FOI Act to seek Pres. Jonathan's assets declaration
26 june 2012 - 11:10:37Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian NGO has sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to President Goodluck Jonathan asking [...] Full text...
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Nigeria urged to prosecute 16 foreign firms for bribery
10 june 2012 - 10:34:29Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Nigerian government [...] Full text...
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Nigerian group seeks probe of alleged corruption in transport sector following plane crash
04 june 2012 - 14:06:09Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian civil society group Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to [...] Full text...
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NGO seeks probe of abandoned projects in Nigeria
21 may 2012 - 11:38:50Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian nongovernmental organization Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a request to the Chief [...] Full text...
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Nigerian pressure group urges ICC to investigate ‘US$6bn fuel subsidy loot’
22 april 2012 - 10:10:45Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – A Nigerian pressure group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has petitioned the International Criminal Court [...] Full text...
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Alleged bribery: Nigeria's President says he committed no crime
05 april 2012 - 11:46:56Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Reeling from allegations that he solicited and obtained a church 'gift' from a foreign construction company [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's anti-graft agency urged to probe church 'gift' to President Jonathan
02 april 2012 - 12:47:59Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian NGO Monday petitioned the anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) asking it to [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO wants US to establish process to share compensation for foreign bribery
18 march 2012 - 10:52:29Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian NGO has sent a request to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), urging [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO urges African Rights Court to consider effects of corruption on poverty level
04 march 2012 - 11:02:20Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a request before the African Court [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGOs sue apex bank over fuel subsidy payment
19 february 2012 - 11:10:45Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Two Nigerian non governmental organisations have sued Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank of [...] Full text...
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Chief Justice of Nigeria suggests measures to tackle corruption in the judiciary
09 february 2012 - 14:13:32Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, has called for a new judicial code [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO 'gets court clearance' to pursue case on recovered stolen funds
08 february 2012 - 12:30:57Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian non-governmental organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), said on Wednesday it had [...] Full text...
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ICC urged to intervene to stop mass killings in Nigeria
22 january 2012 - 15:12:50Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As multiple bomb attacks in many parts of Nigeria continue to result in mass deaths, a [...] Full text...
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Nigeria fuel strike: SERAP calls for documents on alleged corruption in fuel subsidy
15 january 2012 - 11:42:42Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A civil society group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sent a Freedom of [...] Full text...
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'How to fund fuel subsidy in Nigeria'
12 january 2012 - 10:16:18Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the debate on fuel subsidy rages in Nigeria, amid a nation-wide fuel strike, the NGO [...] Full text...
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Nigerian Parliament urged to reject removal of fuel subsidy
08 january 2012 - 09:38:09Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As Nigeria's House of Representatives (parliament) meet on Sunday (8Jan) to deliberate on the removal of [...] Full text...
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UN intervention sought over fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria
03 january 2012 - 10:51:10Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society organisation has taken the battle over the country's decision to remove fuel [...] Full text...
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Civil society group slams Nigerian govt over failure to prevent violence
28 december 2011 - 16:07:41Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Reacting to the latest spate of bomb attacks in the country, Nigerian civil society group, the [...] Full text...
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Nigerian govt sued over spending of recovered stolen funds
11 december 2011 - 11:37:00Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian civil society organization Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the federal government to [...] Full text...
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Security issues, oil subsidy, gay bill dominate front pages in Nigeria
10 december 2011 - 07:08:10Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Wednesday's explosion in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna, which left seven people dead and many more [...] Full text...
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Ex-Nigerian Supreme Court Justice, Eso, wins anti-corruption defender award
08 december 2011 - 12:07:55Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of the 2011 International Anti-Corruption Day to be observed on 9 December, retired Nigerian Supreme [...] Full text...
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Group wants 'disappearance' of US$35b Nigeria foreign reserves probed
23 november 2011 - 09:38:57Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society group has called for the probe of the alleged disappearance of the [...] Full text...
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Impending ICC report on Jos crisis excites Nigerian NGO
04 november 2011 - 09:38:36Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) Friday welcomed the statement by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief [...] Full text...
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Fuel subsidy removal, Jonathan's job-creation initiative highlighted in Nigeria
15 october 2011 - 09:45:18Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Plans by the federal government to end the regime of subsidizing petroleum products and president Goodluck [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO petitions African Commission Special Rapporteur over arrest of journalists
12 october 2011 - 14:14:35Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian non-governmental organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has petitioned Ms Pansy Tlakula, the [...] Full text...
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Libya: African Commission tasked on killing of Nigerians, other black Africans
08 september 2011 - 07:50:19Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organization, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged the African Commission on [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO asks ECOWAS Court to reinstate sacked judge
04 september 2011 - 09:00:01Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian Non-Governmental Organization Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Nigerian government to [...] Full text...
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Nigeria rights group sues govt over removal of top judicial officer
23 august 2011 - 08:56:58Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's civil society organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sued the Nigerian government [...] Full text...
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Nigerians urged to send Facebook messages to Jonathan over education right judgment
14 august 2011 - 10:44:44Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has appealed to Nigerians at home [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO, others want UK to improve law on 'overseas' corruption
22 june 2011 - 15:20:05Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - International NGO Global Witness, Transparency International UK, Nigeria's Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 22 [...] Full text...
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Freedom of Information Act: Key step to end corruption, says rights group
31 may 2011 - 19:17:32Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomes the signing into law by Nigeria's President [...] Full text...
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Kerosene scarcity, politics, violence, sports dominate Nigerian media
21 may 2011 - 09:33:57Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The current kerosene scarcity, political stories, including the forum for newly-elected and re-elected State governors, probing [...] Full text...
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Nigerian govt. sued at ECOWAS Court over killing of corps members
17 may 2011 - 16:00:15Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A civil society group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has dragged the Nigerian Government [...] Full text...
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Group wants Nigeria's Lower House (National Assembly) probed over money
12 may 2011 - 20:29:58Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related [...] Full text...
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Group says obeying ECOWAS right to education judgment will end poll violence
24 april 2011 - 10:48:05Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has been urged to use his “good offices and leadership to [...] Full text...
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Nigeria 2011: NGO wants UN rights chief to probe post-election killings
23 april 2011 - 10:38:14Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian NGO, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has petitioned the United Nations High Commissioner [...] Full text...
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Rights group calls for judicial inquiry into polls-related killings in Nigeria
10 april 2011 - 10:45:55Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A human rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Nigerian [...] Full text...
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Nigeria 2011: NGO urges voters to reject corrupt politicians
01 april 2011 - 08:59:07Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Less than 24 hours to the start of the first of a three-leg election in Nigeria, [...] Full text...
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ECOWAS Court tasked on free education judgement in Nigeria
06 march 2011 - 15:29:05Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society organisation has asked the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja to [...] Full text...
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Group tasks Nigeria's presidential candidates on rights abuses, corruption
20 february 2011 - 10:21:01Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sent letters to all [...] Full text...
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Group petitions UN over alleged harassment of Judge
08 february 2011 - 14:21:05Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has petitioned the UN Special [...] Full text...
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Group petitions Nigerian President over withdrawal of Minister's corruption case
01 february 2011 - 13:56:35Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian non-governmental organisation has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over his government's decision to withdraw the [...] Full text...
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UN human rights chief demands justice for victims of Jos violence
23 january 2011 - 09:43:55Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navi Pillay, has called on the Nigerian government [...] Full text...
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UN Commissioner urged to call Special Session on Nigeria's troubled city
13 january 2011 - 16:41:50Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Civil society group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked the UN High Commissioner [...] Full text...
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Jos violence: Nigerian govt urged to surrender perpetrators to ICC
28 december 2010 - 12:37:27Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With the death toll from the Christmas Eve bombings in Nigeria's northern city of Jos now [...] Full text...
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SERAP petitions ICC over Côte d'Ivoire killings, rape
26 december 2010 - 16:48:05Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian-based human rights non-governmental organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has petitioned the [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO drags govt to UN rights committee over jumbo pay for MPs
21 december 2010 - 14:04:17Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian non-governmental organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has dragged the federal government [...] Full text...
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SERAP asks Nigerian president to appoint special adviser on Sudan
19 september 2010 - 15:21:00Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Ahead of the launch of the "global 365 Campaign on Sudan ", the Socio-Economic Rights and [...] Full text...
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Nigeria's justice minister criticized for comments on allegations against IBB
09 august 2010 - 14:21:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A coalition of the civil society has categorized as "a l et down and a cover-up", [...] Full text...
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Nigerian govt sued over 'inhuman treatment of pensioners'
06 august 2010 - 09:34:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Non-Governmental Organisation Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued Nigeria's federal government for allegedly [...] Full text...
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AU halts execution of 870 Nigerians on death row
06 july 2010 - 07:36:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The African Union human rights body, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, has ordered the [...] Full text...
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Nigerian group seeks probe of car scam by MPs
22 june 2010 - 07:46:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's civil society organisation has urged the anti- graft Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences [...] Full text...
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SERAP wants AU to discuss execution of Nigerians in Libya
03 june 2010 - 16:27:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SE RAP) has asked Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, to urgently [...] Full text...
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Nigeria media report resentment against Babangida, Senator's marriage to minor
01 may 2010 - 09:52:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Resentment against former Nigerian Military President I brahim Babangida's declaration of interest in the 2011 presidency, [...] Full text...
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ICC prosecutor to consider petition on violence in Nigerian city
08 february 2010 - 15:09:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, The Netherlands, has agreed to investigate allegations of [...] Full text...
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SERAP wants ICC to probe crimes against humanity in Nigeria city
31 january 2010 - 09:10:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A civil society group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Acc ountability Project (SERAP), has petitioned Luis Moreno-Ocampo, [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO seeks UN intervention on Yar'Adua's absence
03 january 2010 - 09:40:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A Nigerian Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has petit ioned the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) requesting the [...] Full text...
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African Commission orders Nigerian govt to withdraw anti-media bill
26 november 2009 - 15:01:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The African Commission on Human and Peoplesâ? Rights in Banjul, The Gambia has ordered the Nigerian [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO drags govt to African Commission over media bill
19 november 2009 - 08:40:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The civil society group Socio-Economic Rights and Accoun tability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the African Commission [...] Full text...
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Death row deportees seek Yarâ?Aduaâ?s intervention
08 november 2009 - 11:04:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Account ability Project (SERAP) has appealed to Nigeria's President [...] Full text...
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SERAP lauds corruption judgment against Nigerian topshot
26 october 2009 - 19:19:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A Nigerian civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights an d Accountability Project (SERAP) has lauded the conviction [...] Full text...
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Niger Delta: Shell, ELF want ECOWAS Court suit dismissed
11 october 2009 - 12:40:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Oil firms Shell and Elf have asked the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in the Nigerian [...] Full text...
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Libya deports more Nigerians
02 october 2009 - 07:30:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Libya deported an additional 740 Nigerians Thursday, bri nging the total number of Nigerians repatriated from [...] Full text...
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Libya accepts to stop execution of Nigerians on death row
30 september 2009 - 17:57:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Libyan authorities have accepted to stop the executi on of Nigerians on death row in [...] Full text...
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Rights groups sue Gambia over access to ECOWAS court
29 september 2009 - 15:33:00Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Registered Trustees of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Centre for Defence [...] Full text...
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Nigerian NGO urges Yar'Adua to support new UN Protocol
21 september 2009 - 09:53:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York this week, Nigerian non governmental organisation [...] Full text...
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'Commission stops Libya from executing Nigerians on death row'
13 september 2009 - 08:46:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The African Commission on Human and Peoplesâ? Rights in Banjul, The Gambia, has ordered the government [...] Full text...
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Groups urges African Commission to restrain Libya from executing Nigerians
06 september 2009 - 16:58:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian NGO Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Pr oject (SERAP) has asked the Acting Chairperson of the [...] Full text...
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Group seeks reprieve for Nigerians on Libyan death row
17 august 2009 - 08:23:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria rights group Socio-Economic Rights and Accountab ility Project (SERAP) has appealed to the African Union [...] Full text...
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Group urges Yar'Adua to audit spending of recovered loot
11 june 2009 - 08:28:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A non-government organisation committed to transparency and accountability in governance has asked Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua [...] Full text...
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'There should be no cover-up in Halliburton bribery scandal'
12 april 2009 - 13:29:00Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's opposition Action Congress (AC) party has warn ed the government against any attempt to cover [...] Full text...
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