31st January, 2018. Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…Activities leading to the 48th year birthday celebrations of seasoned civil rights icon and sociopreneur, the Rev David Ugolor, in Benin City, are already in top gear. Organisers have unveiled plans to use the occasion to introduce an annual inaugural public lecture series. For this year, the theme of the lecture would be: Shrinking […]
The Africa Network for environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) had a fruitful engagement meeting with the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Commission (EDSOGPADEC) on Friday 19th January 2018 at the commission’s secretariat in Benin. A total number of eighteen persons were in attendance comprising four ANEEJ staff and fourteen EDSOGPADEC staff including Lucky Wasa, Permanent secretary and Osagie […]
Background: Consequent upon request from Olga Amestitova, Rule-of-Law Expert for the EU and GIZ, ANEEJ executive director the Rev David Ugolor has submitted his bio preparatory to his speech at the UN CoSP 7 side event. Official side events are a platform for admitted observer organizations, which have limited speaking opportunities in the formal negotiations, to engage with Parties and other […]
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. […]