LAUNCH OF MANTRA ONE-YEAR MONITORING OF RECOVERED $322.5M ABACHA LOOT REPORT: APPRECIATION

On behalf of the Board, Management and Staff of the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ) as all partners of the Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Management of Recovered Assets ( MANTRA) project in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria, a sub-sect of the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme of DFID Nigeria, I wish to express our […]

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#COVIDUpdate: 108 New Cases Of COVID-19 Have Been Reported In Nigeria

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) HIGHLIGHTS • On the 23rd of April 2020, 108 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria • Till date, 981 cases have been confirmed, 197 cases have been discharged and thirty one deaths have been recorded in Nigeria • The 108 new cases are reported from eight states- Lagos (78), FCT (14), Ogun (5), Gombe (4), Borno (3), Akwa Ibom […]

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THE MANTRA PROJECT: ASSESSING SUCCESS THROUGH CITIZENS ENGAGEMENT

I sometimes feel many people working in International Development are ignorant when it comes to assessing what success looks like in Anti-Corruption interventions. This is understandable, as the challenge of tackling corruption may seem insurmountable in contexts where governance remains poor; systems are broken, and society largely conditioned to think that nothing can be done to stop public funds being […]

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Poor Nigerians Receive N23.7billion from recovered $322.5million Abacha Loot -MANTRA Report

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. April 23, 2020…. Seven hundred and three thousand, five hundred and six (703,506) poor and vulnerable Nigerians out of an enrolled figure of 834,948 targeted in the Nigerian Social register received a total of ₦23,742,580,000 from the recovered $322.5million Abacha Loot returned from Switzerland as at 31 December 2019 under the Conditional Cash Transfer of Nigeria’s Social […]

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#COVIDUpdate: 117 New Cases Of COVID-19 Have Been Reported In Nigeria

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) HIGHLIGHTS • On the 21st of April 2020, 117 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria • Till date, 782 cases have been confirmed, 197 cases have been discharged and twenty-five deaths have been recorded in Nigeria • The 117 new cases are reported from eight states- Lagos (59), FCT (29), Kano (14), Borno (6), Katsina (4), Ogun (3), Rivers […]

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How the National Social Register is Built

The National Social Register (NSR) is a database of poor and vulnerable households in Nigeria. The register is built using a combination of three targeting mechanisms: Geographic Targeting, Community Based Targeting and Proxy Means Test Click link below to see full details: https://www.aneej.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NSR-Infographics-_Dark.pdf Source: NASSCO Office

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ANEEJ-MANTRA Update, April 15, 2020

The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) through her MANTRA project, is monitoring the ongoing payment along side her eight MANTRA project partners: Resource Centre for Human Rights & Civic Education (CHRICED), Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre (CIRDDOC), FAHINTA Women and Youths Development (FAWOYDI), New Apostolic Church Centre for Development, Bayelsa State Non-Governmental Organisations Forum (BANGOF), Centre […]

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The Covid-19 Palliative is not Conditional Cash Transfer for the Poor

To the general public: we are using this medium to educate Nigerians not to allow politicians to mislead them, the Covid-19 Palliative is not Conditional Cash Transfer for the Poor. The funding for the ongoing Cash Transfer Programme is from the recovered stolen public fund from Switzerland- $322.5m. The Swiss and Nigerian Government and World Bank entered into agreement which […]

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Human Trafficking: Switzerland signs N10milion agreement with ANEEJ

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. April 16, 2020…. The Embassy of Switzerland has signed a ten million Naira (N10million) agreement with the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) a leading Civil Society Organisation in Nigeria to combat human trafficking and irregular migration in Edo State. The Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency Mr. Georg Steiner who signed the agreement on behalf of Switzerland in […]

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