BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. March 3, 2022…. The new Zonal Commander of National Agency for the Prohibition of Human Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Barrister Nduka Nnanwenne has said that the agency has recorded over 500 convictions since the first conviction in 2004. Barrister Nnanwenne disclosed this yesterday at a stakeholder meeting of the Countering Serious Organised Crime (SOC-PREVENT) project of the […]
Disburses $246million to 812,721 poor Households—CSO Monitors SHARM EL-SHEIKH. December 20, 2021… The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that the absence of a legal and institutional framework is hampering transparency and accountability in the management of returned assets, just as Civil Society Watchdog monitoring the disbursement of the returned $322.5million under the aegis of MANTRA project has disclosed that […]
SHARM EL- SHEIKH, EGYPT. December 16, 2021… Anti-Corruption experts from around the world will tomorrow converge on the Nile Valley Hall, at the ongoing 9th Conference of State Parties (COSP) of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt to review the challenges and opportunities faced by stakeholders involved in asset recovery in Africa. The hybrid […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA. December 14, 2021… Ahead of the United States Summit for Democracy and the Nigeria 2023 General Elections, a coalition of thirty-five (35) leading Civil Society Organisations have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the recently passed Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021 into law even as they called on the United States Government to make human rights the […]
BENIN-CITY, NIGERIA. December 9, 2021… Anti-Corruption Watchdog, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to carry out a major surgery of his administration’s approach with a view to revving the engines of the war against corruption which it says appears to be losing steam with rising impunity in public sector corruption. Executive […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. December 6, 2021… The Switzerland Government has signed a $50,000 contract with the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) for the completion of the independent Civil Society monitoring of the recovered $322.5million Late General Sani Abacha loot being distributed to poor Nigerians through the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme of the Federal Government. The contract […]
BENIN-CITY, NIGERIA. October 18, 2021.. Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria have been charged to continue to support Government to achieve all round development for the people even as the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice has been told to continue its service to humanity. Secretary to the Edo State Government, Barrister Osariodion Ogie gave the charge Thursday while unveiling […]
BENIN-CITY, NIGERIA. October 5, 2021… Anti-Corruption Watchdog, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called on the Federal Government to prosecute all those found to have broken Nigerian laws in the global International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)-led Pandora Papers project report which revealed the financial secrets of not less than 35 current and former world leaders, […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA… September 27, 2021… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called for sweeping reforms and policy changes in the World Bank following the discontinuation of publication of the Ease of Doing Business report occasioned by the damning panel report set up by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to review the internal circumstances […]
BENIN-CITY, NIGERIA. August 18, 2021… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has welcomed the signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari saying it is a significant milestone in Nigeria’s quest for a better managed Oil and Gas industry and urged government to begin now to use proceeds from oil and gas to […]