Two civil society groups, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC) have sued the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Sanusi Lamido over “alleged failure to release information and documents on the authorization by the CBN of over N1.26 trillion as subsidy for 2011.” (more…)

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honourable Justice Dahiru Musdapher has called for a new judicial code of ethics that would reflect current realities and challenges to tackle judicial corruption in the country, in order to ensure that “judges and the judicial system remain politically neutral and rise up to safeguard our fledging democracy,” (more…)

As multiple bomb attacks in many parts of Nigeria continue to result in the deaths of innocent citizens, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo urging him “to urgently intervene to stop the mass killings and injuries to several innocent Nigerians, including a journalist, across the country.” (more…)

A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information request to Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, urging him to “use your good offices to provide documents on the systemic corruption in the subsidy system to enable our organization petition the Economic (more…)