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ECOWAS Court Throws Out SERAP’s Suit Against Nigeria’s Borrowing

Daily Dispatch June 27, 2026

..Cites Lack of Evidence The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, has dismissed a suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) challenging Nigeria’s public borrowing practices, ruling that the organisation failed to provide sufficient

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Court Awards N101m to two DSS operatives who sued SERAP for defamation

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2026

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday found the Incorporated Trustees of Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) liable in a defamation suit filed by two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).The court ordered SERAP to pay the sum of N100 million as general damages to both operatives, […]

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Court delivers judgment in N5.5b defamation suit by two DSS officers against SERAP today

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2026

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will on Tuesday deliver judgment in a N5.5 billion defamation suit filed by two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) against the Incorporated Trustees of Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).The group had on September 9, 2024, alleged that DSS operatives “unlawfully

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US-Based Group Faults SERAP, Amnesty Over Sowore, Labels Call to Drop Charges Hypocritical

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2025

Justice For All Nations (JFAN), a non-governmental organization headquartered in the United States, has criticized the recent appeal by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Amnesty International Nigeria urging President Bola Tinubu to withdraw cybercrime charges against activist Omoyele Sowore. In a statement issued on Monday by its Coordinator,

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Groups Demand Release Of Detained #EndBadGovernance Protesters

Daily Dispatch November 2, 2024

Civil society organisations, including the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, Amnesty International, and the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, have condemned the continued detention of 76 #EndBadGovernance protesters, who were arraigned at the Federal High Court in Abuja Friday. The Nigeria Police arrested over a thousand protesters nationwide in

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Group urges NASS to Repeal 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Act, gives Akpabio, Abass 7-days to ‘drop plan to spend N110bn on bulletproof cars, others’

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2023

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas “to drop the scandalous plan to spend N40bn on 465 exotic and bulletproof cars for members and principal officials, and N70bn as ‘palliatives’ for new members.” SERAP urged them to “repeal the 2022 […]