Nigeria, Feb. 24 -- A lawyer, Myson Nejo, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to commit the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Bernard Doro, to prison over the alleged failure to comply with a judgement ordering the release of details of beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer programme.

Mr Nejo, the applicant in the Freedom of Information (FoI) suit in which the court had earlier directed the ministry to disclose records relating to the cash transfer scheme.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the court granted Mr Nejo's FoI request in a judgement delivered in November 2025 and ordered the ministry to release information concerning beneficiaries of the programme after rejecting the ministry's refusal to disclo...