Archive for the ‘Goodnews’ Category

SERAP asks Gaddafi to release 24 Nigerians still on death row in Libya

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project(SERAP) has petitioned the Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi urging him to use his “good offices and leadership to secure the release of Nigerians still on death row in Libya pursuant to the provisional measures granted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.” (more…)

SERAP’s paper @ the International Anti-Corruption Conference Bangkok, Thailand

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Legal Redress for Victims of Corruption: Enhancing the role of civil society to bring and to represent victims in legal proceedings

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Adetokunbo Mumuni Executive Director Socio-Economic Rights & Accountability Project (SERAP) (Nigeria)

At the International Anti-Corruption Conference Bangkok, Thailand (more…)

Court asked to stop Government from spending #2b on Generators

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

SERAP and Lateef Olawale Yussuf (a Nigerian tax payer and one affected by the subject matter of the suit) have asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to stop the Federal Government from spending #2b on generators (two billion naira) as alternative source of electricity to government offices, saying that, (more…)

Nuhu Ribadu wins first civil society anti-corruption defender award

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

On the International Anti-Corruption Day in 2009, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, ex anti graft czar, unanimously emerged the winner of the first ever Civil Society Anti-Corruption Defender Award. (more…)