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 […]
Background The World Policy Institute, cited by Foreign Policy magazine and the University of Pennsylvania as among the world’s leading think tanks, identifies critical emerging global issues in an interdependent world and gives voice to compelling new global perspectives and innovative policy solutions. A non-partisan source of global policy analysis and thought leadership for nearly five decades, World Policy Institute […]
Background: The 2016 Global Synthesis Report is a prestigious document by the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, with Global Secretariat at 3/F IBON Centre, 114 Timog Avenue, Quezon City 1103, the Philippines. It is produced with financial assistance of the Swedish International Development Cooperation(sida), the Department of Foreign Affairs-Ireland(IrishAid), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Australian Development […]
20th December, 2016. Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed worry and anxiety over the unstable and diminishing impact of the President Buhari-led Anti-corruption fight, and has advised Mr President to produce a roadmap indicating as clear as possible the direction, scope and focus of his anti-corruption effort. The Rev. David […]
Background TELL Magazine is easily the leader in the newsmagazine industry in Nigeria. In its heyday, it took on the Abacha junta, and fought for the enthronement of democracy, good governance and accountability in public service through its incisive writing garnered from investigative reports. TELL has on its stable very respected, tested and trusted journalists like Nosa Igiebor, Onome Osifo-Whiskey, Dele Omotunde, Ayodele Akinkuotu […]