BACKGROUND Corruption remains a perennial challenge to development in Nigeria. Despite its wealth of massive crude oil deposits and other resources, the country continues to experience widespread poverty and underdevelopment. According to the UN and the AU, around $148 billion is stolen from Africa annually by political leaders, multinational corporations, the business elite and civil servants with complicity of banking […]
Abuja, November 18, 2018. Revenue disbursements by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to the three tiers of government has witnessed a steady increase in three consecutive quarters of this year with N2.28 trillion shared in Q3 of 2018. A breakdown shows that the Federal government received the highest sum of N904.8 billion, followed by states, which received N718.5 billion […]
Background/context of Situation On October 19th 2018, the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, together with her MANTRA partners – BANGOF, CSJ, NISD, CIRDDOC, Development Exchange Centre and representatives of the NASSCO and NCTO including the FMOJ and the OGP secretariat – held a meeting to inaugurate an advocacy working group on the passage of seemingly stale anti-corruption bills […]
Background The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) through her “Open Niger Delta” (OPENED) project supported by Bread for the World, seeks to introduce the Niger Delta Governance Index (NDGI). This is to capture the status and quality of governance provided by State government in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The OPENED project is specifically designed to […]
Background ANEEJ organized a two-day MANTRA project mid-term review meeting on October 11 – 12, 2018 at Morzi Hotel, Benin City. ANEEJ staff and her project partners, MANTRA project consultants, ACORN project partners (Actionaid Nigeria) and other CSOs, Ministry of Justice, OGP Secretariat, National Cash Transfer Office (NCTO) and National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO) were all in attendance. […]
During the timeline allocated for Nigerians to get PVCs, venues for the exercises were usually packed out. About 90% of these prospective voters were Nigerians within the 20-30 age-brackets. This perhaps conveyed the idea that the most productive arm of the Nigerian economy, the youth, were ready to execute the will behind the Not-Too-Young-to-Run idea. This supposition had not come […]
Background/Context. On Tuesday, September 25 2018 international headquarters of the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ was a beehive of activities. It was the Media Brief on Project Close Out. Her partner, the LITE-Africa, which worked with ANEEJ was there as well. Several media representatives graced this important meeting. In an address, ANEEJ executive director, the Rev David […]
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 […]
Press Release 30th August 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed deep dismay and bewilderment at President Buhari’s decision not to sign the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, into law and has urged him to reconsider his stance in the interest of Nigerians. Presidential assent to the PIGB has been withheld on the […]
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 […]