Background The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice (ANEEJ) under USAID/SACE grant no. SACE-ISWF-007 – Tackling Corruption through Improving Transparency in Property Ownership – is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the design of a website for the mapping and reporting of properties illegally acquired with proceeds of crime by Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). The idea is to […]
7th December, 2017 By Cornelius Essen, The Guardian Nigeria Nine Nigerian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have called on United States (U.S.) and United Kingdom (UK) to emulate the determination of Swiss authorities to track, freeze and return all looted Nigeria’s wealth and assets in their countries. The NGOs, which made this known at the 1st Global Forum on Asset Recovery […]
This year when the inaugural global forum for asset recovery will take place in Washington DC, in December the attention of the world will focus on four countries – Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and Tunisia. I am not really sure why the focus will be on those other three other countries but I have a pretty faint idea why […]
Background: The ANEEJ-SERAP pre-GFAR Consultative summit held on the 26th October, 2017 may have come and gone. But it left many indelible momories and set the tone for the frank discussions and healthy debates which are expected to take place at the inaugural GFAR Summit in Washington DC in December, 2017. First to set that tone was the ANEEJ […]
BACKGROUND Anti-corruption stakeholders in Nigeria convened for a Preparatory Consultative Meeting ahead of the Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR) scheduled to hold in Washington DC on December 4-6, 2017. The Pre-GFAR Consultative Meeting, held at Reiz Continental Hotel, Abuja on October 26, 2017, was organized by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) in partnership with Socio-Economic […]
27th September 2017 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has urged the United Kingdom, UK, and the US, together with the EU to live up to all commitments made to assist Nigeria eliminate the bottlenecks of international legal systems in the repatriation of wealth looted from Nigeria by politically exposed persons, PEP. The Rev […]
BACKGROUND: The purpose of the roundtable was to bring stakeholders together to chart a common road map in the asset recovery process. This was against a backdrop of an earlier meeting on asset recovery and management organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-16 February 2017 and for which ANEEJ formed […]
Press Release December 4, 2016 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has welcomed the decision of the Nigerian government to import only fuels with a reduced sulphur content of 50ppm, in agreement with the recommendations agreed upon at a high-level ministerial meeting in Abuja, and called on the Federal government as well to immediately publish […]
At the High-level ministerial meeting which held in Abuja December 1, 2016, bold recommendations were reached by Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Benin and Ivory Coast. Here is the COMMUNIQUE, highlighting the theme of the meeting: MINISTERIAL MEETING ON PROMOTING LOW SULPHIUR FUELS IN NIGERIA AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES HELD AT THE REIZ CONTINENTAL HOTEL, CENTRAL AREA, ABUJA, NIGERIA ON DECEMBER 1, 2016. […]
The Do No Harm (DNH) regional meeting held at ANEEJ secretariat, on Tuesday 22 November, 2016 in Benin City, Edo State. Bayo Olaniyan and Aliu Grace Oluyinka represented FADU while Oral-Ogbuigwe Michael and Owulo Patience from ACCORD attended the workshop. Programme Officer for the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Ogbebor Eghosa coordinated the meeting. The Africa Network for Environment […]