INTERVIEW WITH BBC ON THE $23M ABACHA LOOT AGREEMENT Hello and welcome to Newsday with Rana and James. The trail of millions of dollars put away in foreign banks by the Nigerian Former President Sani Abacha. Nigeria has just signed an agreement for another $23M stolen money to be returned by the United States. The money is part of the […]
Our attention has been drawn to the arrest of one Mr. Abdullazeez Bako, founder of Center for Citizens Right by security agency for allegedly being in possession of yet to be ascertained numbers of E-Wallet payment cards of beneficiaries of the National Cash Transfer Programme in Nasarawa State. The said Mr. Abdullazeez Bako, Director of Centre for Citizens Right, […]
Introduction Poverty has become a major development problem in Nigeria. The World Poverty Clock report released in 2018 shows Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the most extreme poor people in the world. The struggle to lift more citizens out of extreme poverty is an indictment on successive Nigerian governments which have mismanaged the country’s vast oil resources […]
The Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Disposal of the Federal Government’s Forfeited Assets under the Chairman, Dayo Apata (SAN) and Solicitor-General of the Federation commemorate with ANEEJ Executive Director, Rev. David Ugolor on the occasion of his 51years birthday. The celebration happened today February 3, 2021 at the 7th Meeting in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Abuja and had the Inter-Ministerial […]
Preamble The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, (ANEEJ) in collaboration with African Forum for Debt and Development, (AFRODAD) convened a one-day debt advocacy meeting as part of advocacy campaign on debt management initiatives. The objectives of the meeting include: To engage debt management stakeholders in Nigeria, on Nigerian debt management concerns; to review current state of indebtedness in […]
Highlights On the 1st of June 2020, 416 new confirmed cases and 12 deaths were recorded in Nigeria No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. Till date, 10578 cases have been confirmed, 3122 cases have been discharged and 299 deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory The 416 new cases […]
Highlights On the 24th of May 2020, 313 new confirmed cases and 5 deaths were recorded in Nigeria No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. Till date, 7839 cases have been confirmed, 2263 cases have been discharged and 226 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory The 313 new cases […]
Being a transcribed short Documentary and Interview of the Executive Director Of ANEEJ, Rev. David Ugolor, beneficiaries and Other Stakeholders on the Impact of the Federal Government Social Investment Programme (SIP) in Nigeria aired on AFRICA 54 of Voice of America programme via Channels TV On 18 May 2020. It has been viewed by 6.7k viewers as at time of […]
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) HIGHLIGHTS • On the 28th of April 2020, 195 new confirmed cases and four deaths were recorded in Nigeria• One new state (Nasarawa) has reported a case in the last 24 hours.• Till date, 1532 cases have been confirmed, 255 cases have been discharged and 44 deaths have been recorded in 33 states and the Federal Capital Territory• […]
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 […]