Oyo State government’s attempts to defend itself against the revelations in Dataphyte’s report of “Notebook Gate” has backfired spectacularly leading to even greater indictments on its public procurement processes under the current administration. The Oyo state government through its Ministry…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the 36 state governors to “immediately redirect public funds budgeted to pay ex-governors undeserved pensions and other retirement benefits, and for ‘security votes’, and to use some of the savings to pay…
Kenneth AFOR | About 80 percent of Primary Health Centers (PHCs) in 15 states in the country are unfit to administer COVID-19 vaccination, according to a Civil Society Organization, Connected Development (CODE). Since the index was recorded last year in…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched Accountability Club to “mobilize and encourage Nigerians particularly students of tertiary institutions to participate in the promotion of transparency and accountability and the fight against corruption in Nigeria.” The SERAP Accountability Club…
Kenneth AFOR | As part of the COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP), leading social accountability initiatives, Follow The Money and BudgIT, with learning partners Global Integrity, have launched a comprehensive user-friendly COVID-19 Fund Africa website. This was disclosed on…
A civic-tech organization, BudgIT have taken the lead for advocacy of transparency and accountability in public finance in Nigeria. It asked the government to audit security spending and close gaps for corruption in its budget process. BudgIT CEO, Gabriel Okeowo…
After a year-long break due to the Covid 19 travel restrictions, President Buhari has resumed his usual medical trips to the United Kingdom. This is in spite of the huge annual budget allocations to his official hospital at the Villa.…
There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing details of how Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds are disbursed and spent by the Delta State Government may soon have some answers, as Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has won the…
By Lanre Arogundade | “Nigeria’s ranking on the Press Freedom Index continues to sit in the red zone, ranking 115 in the 2020 ranking, an improvement on its 2019 ranking but no less solidly red, the colour used to identify…
BudgIT Foundation and Connected Development (CODE), two prominent civic-tech non-governmental organizations has launched a program to spearhead the transparency and accountability of government’s spending of COVID-19 intervent funds. The program, COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP), will track of COVID-19…
