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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for "the arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code to sanction and threaten to revoke the licences of broadcast stations in the country and shut them down over their legitimate coverage of the 2023 general elections." Joined in the suit as Defendant is Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture.  

NBC had last week reportedly sanctioned 25 broadcast stations and issued ‘final warnings’ to 16 others.

  A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project leave to pursue its suit seeking to compel President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to probe allegations of missing funds in the finance ministry. SERAP on Tuesday announced that Justice Tijjani Ringim of the Federal High Court, Lagos granted it the leave to pursue the suit.

Socio- Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Muhammadu Buhari and three others at the Federal High Court, Lagos over failure to “reverse the unlawful, unjust and unreasonable increase in electricity tariff and to probe the spending of public funds as ‘investments and bailouts’ to DisCos (Distribution Companies) and GenCos (Generation Companies) since 2005.”

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the failure of his government to reverse the 'unlawful, unjust, and unreasonable' increase in electricity tariff.   The group also accused the President of refusing to prove the spending of public funds as ‘investments and bailouts’ to DisCos (electricity distribution companies) and GenCos (electricity generation companies) since 2005.”