Benin-City, Nigeria. July 2, 2020… The Edo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, and Co-Chair of the Edo State Open Government Partnership (OGP), Prof Yinka Omorogbe has assured stakeholders that the Edo State Action Plan (SAP) developed some months ago will be signed by the Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki soon. Prof Omorogbe gave the assurance […]

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. June 18, 2020… A total of Seven Hundred and forty-eight thousand, six hundred and eighty four (748,684) households of  poor and vulnerable Nigerians out of an enrolled figure of 755,375 targeted in the Nigerian Social register received a total of ₦13,069,896,000 representing 80 percent of the total N16,337,370,000 from the recovered $322.5million […]

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. June 1, 2020.. Following the successful bid opening for 18 Civil Society Organisations that applied to be third party monitors for the $311.79million  Abacha III returned recently from the United States of America and the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ and Lead organization of the […]

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 6, 2020…. The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, a Non-Governmental Organisation based in Benin City, Edo State has urged aides of President Muhamadu Buhari to foster greater inter-agency collaboration to bring about consistency in data and information which goes out to members of the public. Executive Director of […]

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 4, 2020…. The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ and all its partners on the Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Management of Returned Assets (MANTRA) project being supported by DFID Nigeria under its Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme have welcomed the successful repatriation of $311,797,866 of the Abacha […]

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. April 23, 2020…. Seven hundred and three thousand, five hundred and six (703,506) poor and vulnerable Nigerians out of an enrolled figure of 834,948 targeted in the Nigerian Social register received a total of ₦23,742,580,000 from the recovered $322.5million Abacha Loot returned from Switzerland as at 31 December 2019 under the Conditional […]

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. April 16, 2020…. The Embassy of Switzerland has signed a ten million Naira (N10million) agreement with the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) a leading Civil Society Organisation in Nigeria to combat human trafficking and irregular migration in Edo State. The Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency Mr. Georg Steiner who signed the agreement […]

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. April 14, 2020…. Civil Society Watchdog, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) and its MANTRA partners currently monitoring the returned $322.5million Abacha loot nationwide have hailed the presidential directive to expand the Nigeria social register from 2.6million households to 3.6million households in the next two weeks. Executive Director of […]

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. April 9, 2020… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a renowned Civil Society watchdog leading other CSOs under the umbrella of Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Management of  Returned Assets (MANTRA) project being supported by DFID under the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme has weighed in on news […]

Want State Governors to cooperate with NCTO for fund disbursements. BENIN CITY, NIGERIA… April 2, 2020…. Civil Society Organisations working under the aegis of  Transparency and Accountability in the management of Returned Assets (MANTRA) have called on the payment agents of the Conditional Cash Transfer programme to observe the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the […]