NIGERIA REVIEWING ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWS -ABUBAKAR MALAMI, SAN

Background At the ANEEJ-SERAP pre-GFAR Consultative meeting in Abuja 26th October 2017, the Federal government of Nigeria announced that it had recovered $USS85million of the Malabu deal. Other groundbreaking remarks and commitments from the Nigerian Government which the announcement above seemed to overshadow are contained in the speech by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon Abubakar Malami, SAN. […]

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FG ANNOUNCES $85MILLION RECOVERY @ ANEEJ-SERAP PRE-GFAR MEETING – UPDATE

BACKGROUND  Anti-corruption stakeholders in Nigeria convened for a Preparatory Consultative Meeting ahead of the Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR) scheduled to hold in Washington DC on December 4-6, 2017. The Pre-GFAR Consultative Meeting, held at Reiz Continental Hotel, Abuja on October 26, 2017, was organized by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) in partnership with Socio-Economic […]

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ANEEJ @ CSO PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS SUMMIT.

Background The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), an open platform that unites CSOs from around the world on the issue of development effectiveness. We strive to make development more effective by reshaping the global aid architecture and empowering CSOs working on the ground. In promoting development effectiveness in all areas of work, both our own and the work of […]

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Will the owners of unoccupied Abuja estates stand up?

By Erhisohwode Assurance Ovie, ISWF Project officer According to the UNODC StAR report 2014, the Financial Action Task Force’s annual reports described in detail the variety and “creativity” behind money laundering mechanisms. An interesting feature of that “creativity” is that different types of crimes tend to rely on different types of laundering mechanisms. Relying on reports from the FATF and […]

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PRE-GFAR SUMMIT: WALK THE ANTI-CORRUPTION TALK, ANEEJ URGES THE US, UK & EU

  27th September 2017 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has urged the United Kingdom, UK, and the US, together with the EU to live up to all commitments made to assist Nigeria eliminate the bottlenecks of international legal systems in the repatriation of wealth looted from Nigeria by politically exposed persons, PEP. The Rev […]

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ANEEJ AUGUST NEWSLETTER – A COLLECTOR’S DELIGHT

ANEEJ AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2017 From the editor-in-chief:  This edition of ANEEJ quarterly newsletter (click link above) is a loaded package. It came at a time when ANEEJ deputy executive director, Leo Atakpu (who is the Reality of AID chairperson) attended the RoA meeting in Paris and steered discussions on preparing and sending out discussion papers,  assignment of main discussants for […]

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ANEEJ LEADS REALITY OF AID MEETING IN PARIS

Background The Reality of Aid Network holds a Global Assembly for RoA members once in its two-year Report cycle. Its purpose is to engage members to debate key issues for the theme of the upcoming Global Report and to share national and regional experiences with other RoA members. It seeks interchange on crucial issues and builds capacities and ownership for […]

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DO NO HARM IN ANEEJ

BACKGROUND  On the 21st day of August, 2017, officials of the Christian Rural Development Association of Nigeria, CRUDAN, visited ANEEJ. From the 17th – 18th of August, 2017,  ANEEJ Charles Iyare conducted a Training of Trainers, ToT, program for lecturers and professors drawn from universities across Nigeria.  As a consequence of that training programme of the Bread for the World, […]

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ANEEJ IS PANELIST AT FG CONFERENCE ON ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS AND ASSET RECOVERY

The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, will feature as a panellist at a Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Asset Recovery, being organised by the Federal Government for sustainable development in Nigeria. The 3-day conference is billed to kick off from the 5th of June 2017 and is a stakeholder global platform to exchange practical knowledge on […]

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PIGB PASSAGE: VICTORY FOR NIGERIANS—ANEEJ

26th May, 2017 Press release   Benin City…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has commended the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the passage of a segment of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB and says that this milestone is a credit to the progressive disposition of the federal government, to carry out far-reaching reforms […]

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