September 11, 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has hailed the Edo State government on her expression of interest to participate as a key sub-national Open Government Partnership, OGP, player in Nigeria. Since signing on to the Open Government Partnership in 2016, Nigeria and the OGP have worked assiduously to get subnational governments in […]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Niger Delta Region with vast oil reserves and source of Nigeria’s wealth accounts for more than 80% of the revenue earnings for the 1country’s annual budget. Yet the effect of the oil exploration in the host communities especially at the creeks had led to serious environmental degradation affecting their primary sources of livelihood which contributes to high […]
Background The approval of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) by the Federal Executive Council on 5th July, 2017, evidences the continuous strides of the present administration to combat corruption in Nigeria. The main objective of the NACS is to identify and close existing gaps in the anti-corruption initiatives currently in place. The strategy is an insight into the government’s fight […]
Many years before the return of stolen Nigerian monies stashed in foreign countries, ANEEJ had been at the forefront of the campaign. In 2004, ANEEJ coordinated civil society organisations to monitor how the Abacha loot, $500million, returned from Switzerland was spent. That activity culminated in a report, SHADOW REPORT ON THE PEMFAR MONITORING EXERCISE here: https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/files/documents/Potentatengelder/Report_Abacha.pdf, authored by Reverend David […]
Of the over 100 persons attending on behalf of Niger Delta communities, civil society organizations, government agencies, Niger Delta Institutions and media organizations who converged at the Best Western Hotel, Benin City on August 2, 2018, for a Niger Delta Institutions Learning Forum, two of them – the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) and Leadership Initiative […]
24th July, 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ has called for a comprehensive investigation of the alleged case of money-for-CHAN-selection scandal involving the chief coach of the Nigerian Super Eagles Team B Coach, Salisu Yusuf, saying that the incident has the potential to either redeem or damn the integrity of sports administration in Nigeria […]
CONTEXT The key to unraveling the puzzle of dirty money being used to acquire property in the UK was a Klepto Bus ride undertaken in the UK in 2017. But apart from that there is the Unexplained Wealth Orders, UWO, a UK Policy of putting the burden of proof on the owners of suspiciously acquired wealth. The Africa Network for […]
CONTEXT (Culled from OGP website https://www.opengovpartnership.org/events/ogp-global-summit-2018-tbilisi). As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), Georgia will host the 5th OGP Global Summitin Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 17-19, 2018. Representatives from OGP’s 96 national and local participants — heads of state and governments, ministers, public servants, members of parliament, local authorities, civil society representatives, international foundations, researchers, academia and journalists — will gather […]
CONTEXT This inception meeting in Yenogao Bayelsa State, Nigeria was convened 16th July 2018 for the purpose of stepping down Open Government Partnership, OGP, for Bayelsa state in accordance with the mandate of the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, as co-chair of the National Action Working Group on Anti-Corruption. The meeting took place with the active collaboration […]
The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, together with LITE-Africa and project partners RIVCO held a very engaging time with Mr Williams Makinde, Managing Director of the DESOPADEC in Warri Delta State, 5th July, 2018. The purpose of the visit was to introduce the NDITI Platform as a transparency tool that can objectively capture the Accountability and Transparency […]