In his nationwide broadcast on Sunday, Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, revealed that the government disbursed over N400billion to states. Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called on the state governments to account for the sum of N438billion disbursed to revitalise businesses following the COVID-19 pandemic.In his nationwide broadcast on Sunday, Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, revealed that the government disbursed over N400billion to states.Falana demanded for accountability from the state governments in a statement he...
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BREAKING: UBA Bank Refuses To Accept Letter By Take-It-Back Movement Lawyers, Seeking To Unfreeze Account
5 months ago855 min
The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has refused to accept the letter written by pro-democracy group, Take-It-Back Movement seeking that its account should be unfrozen. SaharaReporters reported last Friday that UBA had frozen the account of the organisation over its call for #EndBadGovernance in Nigeria protests. According to TIB Movement, its account was frozen on the instructions of Nigeria’s secret police, Department of State Services, also known as State Security Service. Also on Friday, the...
SERAP asks CBN to account for N100bn dirty notes
5 months ago945 min
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the Central Bank of Nigeria “over the failure to account for and explain the whereabouts of the over N100bn ‘dirty and bad notes’ and ‘other large sum of cash awaiting examination’ which are kept in various branches of the CBN.” In a suit marked FHC/L/MSC/441/2024 filed last week at the Federal High Court in Lagos, SERAP is asking the court to “direct and compel...
BREAKING: Nigeria’s Secret Police, DSS Cracks Down On Take-It-Back Movement, Orders UBA To Freeze Account Over Planned Protest
5 months ago1117 min
The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has frozen the account of human rights organisation, Take It Back Movement over its call for #EndBadGovernance in Nigeria protests. According to TIB Movement, its account was frozen on the instructions of Nigeria’s secret police, Department of State Services, also known as State Security Service. The organisation has vowed to take legal action against UBA for the unlawful action if the account is not unfrozen with 24 hours. “It...