OUTCOME STATEMENT FROM THE NIGER DELTA CSOs MEETING CONVENED BY ANEEJ

On Tuesday February 13, 2024, The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) convened a meeting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria to reflect on Ken Saro Wiwa’s struggles for environmental justice in the Niger Delta and to also discuss emerging issues that have implication for the environment in the region. The meeting had in attendance 47 participants drawn from […]

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Norway’s Oil Fund Invited to the Niger Delta to witness the first-hand impact of Shell’s Operations

We at ANEEJ (Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice) have been working to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the damages that have been caused in the Niger Delta.  Norway’s Oil Fund (managed by Norges Bank Investment Management – NBIM) is a top three shareholder in Shell. In 2013 Norway’s Ministry of Finance directed the Oil Fund to engage […]

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ANEEJ urges Tinubu, N’Assembly to end Plastic Pollution in Nigeria

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. June 5, 2023… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a Benin City based non-governmental Organisation has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the 10th National Assembly to take pragmatic steps enact policies to end Plastic Pollution in Nigeria even as it calls on Shell, Chevron and other Multinational Oil Companies operating in Nigeria […]

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Request for Application from Consultants on Documentary Production

Terms of Reference (ToR) Short documentary video on the impact of oil exploration activities on the environment and the people’s health and livelihood in the Niger Delta Context Rising temperatures in Africa have already led to the loss of endemic flora and fauna in fragile ecosystems throughout Nigeria, with attendant impacts on communities. Now Nigeria is likely to be a […]

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OPEN LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

We welcome the leadership that you are providing in this vital year for our climate, such as your work convening global faith leaders ahead of the Glasgow summit. We fully agree with your statement that: “We all have both a moral and financial responsibility to address the climate emergency and to use those tools available to us to support the […]

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Consultancy for research on the impact of Climate Change on the poor and vulnerable citizens in Nigeria – ANEEJ Call for Expression of Interest

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 […]

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ANEEJ Urges FG to end Gas Flaring, importation of dirty Fuel

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. June 5, 2019…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has called on the Federal Government to take urgent steps to  end the importation of dirty fuels which are high in sulphur into the country  perpetrated by unscrupulous petrol and diesel dealers in  keeping with its  commitments on Paris Declaration on Climate Change. Executive Director of ANEEJ, Rev David […]

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US WITHDRAWAL AS IMPLEMENTING COUNTRY FROM EITI REGRETFUL ANEEJ HOLDS

Press Release 5th November, 2017. Abuja, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed dismay and bewilderment at the March 2017 withdrawal of the United States from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, and its recent ratification of November 2017 of that withdrawal from the EITI as an implementing country. In a statement released shortly after the US […]

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Dirty Diesel: Toxic Air from Africa Returns to Switzerland – Update.

Public Eye (formerly Berne Declaration) Press Release Zurich/Lausanne/Accra, October 4, 2016 Dirty Diesel: Toxic Air from Africa Returns to Switzerland Today, the “Irenes Rainbow” left the Port of Accra and set course for Antwerp. On board is a container labelled “Return to Sender” which Public Eye and its African partner organizations plan to deliver to the door of the trading […]

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FOR LOW CARBON FUELS ANEEJ PARLEYS FED MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT

At a meeting on Low Carbon Growth for Nigeria which ANEEJ participated in Abuja today, key stakeholders from the business sector and Civil Society discussed issues bordering the reduction of carbon emissions to mitigate the spectre of Climate Change.  In September 15, 2016  ANEEJ held a world press conference on the importation of dirty fuel followed by a press release […]

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