Tinubu’s UK visit: SERAP urges King Charles III to press Nigeria on human rights

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called connected King Charles III to usage President Bola Tinubu’s authorities sojourn to the United Kingdom to item persistent quality rights violations and the shrinking civic abstraction successful Nigeria.

Tinubu’s visit, scheduled to absorption connected deepening diplomatic, economic, and information practice betwixt Nigeria and the UK, arsenic good arsenic reinforcing ties wrong the Commonwealth, presents what SERAP describes arsenic a “timely accidental to spot quality rights, accountability, and the regularisation of instrumentality astatine the centre of bilateral and Commonwealth engagement”.

In a missive dated 18 March 2026 and signed by SERAP Deputy Director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation urged the British monarch to “press for respect for the regularisation of instrumentality and the extortion of quality rights successful Nigeria”.

SERAP expressed interest implicit the government’s expanding usage of repressive laws and strategical lawsuits to intimidate journalists, activists, and critics. “The continuing exertion of the Cybercrimes Act and transgression defamation laws against peaceful look contravenes Nigeria’s planetary quality rights obligations,” the missive stated.

The radical besides highlighted the plight of internally displaced persons, IDPs, successful bluish states, including Benue, Borno, and Plateau, noting that galore are denied fundam...