The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over the alleged failure to investigate the disappearance of over US$15 billion in oil revenues and N200 billion budgeted for refinery repairs in Nigeria between 2020 and 2021. These allegations were reported in the 2021 Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative…
Two bills related to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have passed the second reading in the Nigerian Senate. These bills aim to prohibit a serving Governor of the CBN from participating in partisan politics and seek to reposition the bank for greater efficiency. The move comes after the immediate past CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele,…
Ogun State’s police department had a recent run-in with a case of officers behaving badly. Three inspectors were caught on camera in the act of “flagrantly extorting money from commercial motorcyclists.” It all went down on October 19 at the Maawu Bus Stop in the Agbado area of the state. The not-so-upstanding officers were identified…