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The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
A proposed law to place every foreign grant entering Nigeria under a single new regulator has hardened into one of the sharpest civil liberties disputes of the current National Assembly, with rights advocates now threatening to go to court if the bill becomes law. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and the Nigerian…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to conduct a joint investigation into alleged vote-buying, financial inducement, violence and other electoral offences recorded during Saturday’s Osun State governorship election. The demand…
A frontline rights group wants Nigeria’s top politicians to expose their personal wealth ahead of 2027. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project challenged President Bola Tinubu and opposition leaders to disclose their assets. Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi lead a nineteen-candidate list facing the voluntary challenge. SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare issued the demand in…
A prominent rights group has urged the National Assembly to withdraw a controversial draft data protection law immediately. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project described the proposed legislation as a deceptive backdoor attempt to regulate social media networks. The organisation warned that the bill grants state regulators sweeping powers to censor online expression and shut…
The Nigerian Senate returns from recess on Tuesday to confront an uncomfortable question that has exposed weaknesses across the machinery of government: how did a body the Presidency insists never existed secure N1,302,978,784 in the 2026 Appropriation Act, pass through the Budget Office and the National Assembly, and operate from an office inside the…
The Department of State Services has distanced itself from the remand of activist and publisher Omoyele Sowore at the Kuje Custodial Centre, insisting that his detention flowed entirely from court proceedings rather than any action by the agency, even as it ordered an investigation into the conduct of operatives filmed during chaotic scenes at…
Three years after a court order and months into contempt proceedings, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has issued a fresh 48-hour ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Finance, demanding full disclosure of all Nigerian contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and vendors who received payments under the controversial $460 million Abuja CCTV project. In a…
The National Broadcasting Commission has filed an appeal against a Federal High Court ruling that temporarily barred it from enforcing controversial sections of the 6th Edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, escalating a legal battle that has placed press freedom at the centre of Nigeria’s regulatory debate. The commission filed its Notice of Appeal…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has formally challenged a N100 million defamation judgment delivered against it by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, filing an appeal at the Court of Appeal and simultaneously seeking a stay of execution pending the outcome of the case. In a statement issued on…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and the Nigerian Guild of Editors have launched a legal offensive against the National Broadcasting Commission. The groups filed suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos on April 24, 2026, challenging the regulator’s authority to police editorial opinion. They argue that the NBC’s recent threats to sanction stations…