One of President Trump’s best tools to “drain the swamp” is under threat from his own side. A mere four days after he took office, Republican Congress members began attacking a key piece of anti-corruption legislation. This rule, the Cardin-Lugar provision (also known as Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act), was a bipartisan effort to shield US citizens and shareholders from […]
Background The ANEEJ Civil Society Advocacy to Support Anti-Corruption in Nigeria CASAN was borne out of a well-wrought plan to deepen CSO and media involvement and support for the Federal Government’s Anti-Corruption project. Key questions which assisted with the formulation of the hypothesis behind CASAN include the following: how can CSOs galvanize stakeholders from the demand aisle? How and to […]
Background Brussels/Madrid, 25 January 2017 Over forty civil society organisations have endorsed a joint letter initiated by Access Info Europe and Oceana to urge Members of the European Parliament to vote in favour of a proposed Regulation that will help fight illegal fishing by increasing transparency about the owners of EU flagged vessels. The Regulation on the sustainable management of external fishing fleets will set up […]
BACKGROUND Corruption is a problem in Nigeria and the Nigerian government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari is serious about fighting it. But it cannot cannot carry out the Herculean task all alone. With support from the UNDP, EU and the UNODC, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, seeks to bring relevant stakeholders together to support […]
Background Rape in Nigeria occurs along three levels of our educational institutions – the primary, secondary and the university. Rape is an aspect of corruption and human rights abuse against the weak and marginalized like women, young girls and sometimes children. ANEEJ video skit seeks to fight this problem through collaboration with security forces, educational institutions and victims of Rape. Find here […]
20th January, 2017 STOP ARRESTING ONLINE JOURNALISTS & EDITORS, ANEEJ ADMONISHES FG Abuja Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has strongly condemned the wanton arrests of online bloggers and journalists and has called on aggrieved public servants and politicians to explore responsible avenues to seek redress for infractions on their persons or roles. In making the case […]
17th January, 2017 Abuja, Nigeria…As the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, leads high-level delegations of the Federal Government to the Niger Delta region to interact with leaders and representatives of some oil-producing communities in Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers, as part of effort to address the Niger Delta crisis, the undersigned Civil Society Organisations consider it imperative to use this opportunity […]
16th January, 2017 Abuja, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has welcomed the scheduled visit of the Vice President Mr Yemi Osinbajo to the Niger Delta, and has charged the Federal Government of Nigeria to return the NDDC to the presidency so that the negotiating instruments that will stimulate development, peace and goodwill in the region with […]
A Premium Times report by Joshua Olufemi and Richard Akinwumi, published on November 16, 2015 showed that despite spending an unprecedented N1.488 trillion on armaments between 2011 and 2014, the coefficient of correlation between military spending and death toll caused by violence is +0.54. According to the Nigeria Security Tracker, deaths caused by crime and violence in Nigeria, rose from 29 in […]
The United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, has done a media monitoring on the decision taken in Abuja, December 1 by five African countries to ban dirty diesel imports as of July 2017. The news was covered in 68 countries, in 330 articles and in 11 languages. Largest number of articles appeared in the US, France, Nigeria and Spain and articles […]