PRESS STATEMENT BY ANEEJ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, REV. DAVID UGOLOR TO MARK 2022 INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION DAY, HOLDING AT ANEEJ SECRETARIAT, BENIN CITY, ON DECEMBER 9, 2022 Protocol! Gentlemen of the press, I welcome you all to this press briefing to mark 2022 international anti-corruption day. The 2022 International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD) seeks to highlight the crucial link between anti-corruption and peace, […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA. December 8, 2022… Against the backdrop of last month’s sentencing of oil giant, Glencore UK Ltd to the tune of £280 million in financial penalties for bribery of Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) officials and similar corporations in five African countries, the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice and a group of African and international civil society […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. December 1, 2022… Against the backdrop of the National Bureau of Statistics revelation that 133 million Nigerians are living in poverty, theAfrica Network for Environment and Economic Justice ANEEJ, a Civil Society Organisation with a vision to eradicate poverty in Nigeria has called on the National Assembly to speedily consider the passage of the Social Investment Programme […]
The Anti-corruption cluster of the Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) project being implemented by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) as anchor and her 8 cluster organisations organized a Stakeholder Dialogue on the National Anti-corruption Strategy (NACS II) in Abuja on November 29, 2022. The stakeholder dialogue was used to discuss and present the newly […]
About 112 heads of States and over 46,000 delegates including ministries, CSOs, scientists, policy makers, oil companies and the private sector as well as other stakeholders gathered at the Red Sea Resort, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 6th to 18th November 2022, for the 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP27. The global […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. November 24, 2022… Civil Society Organisations working in the anti-corruption sector have welcomed yesterday’s approval of the revised National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2022-2026 by the Federal Executive Council presided by President Muhammadu Buhari. Leader of the CSOs and Executive Director, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, Rev David Ugolor, hailed Federal Government’s approval of the revised National […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. November 23, 2022… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has welcomed the nomination of the chairman and members of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), by President Muhammadu Buhari and urged the Senate to expeditiously consider the nominees without delay. Executive Director of ANEEJ, the Rev David Ugolor while welcoming the […]
AN ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, REALITY OF AID AFRICA, MR LEO ATAKPU AT THE MULTISTAKEHOLDER CONFERENCE ON PROMOTION OF LOCALISATION OF DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND BUILDING OF TRUST, 17-18, NOVEMBER, NAIROBI, KENYA. Your excellency Minister of Foreign Affairs Kenya, Dr. Alfred Mutua Government officials here present Dear Colleagues Ladies and gentlemen It is a […]
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT. November 16, 2022…. Over Eighty (80) Global Civil Society Organisations and Seven (7) leading environmental activists drawn from around the world have endorsed a joint letter calling on the Nigerian Government and all Governments supporting Oil and Gas extraction in the Niger Delta to offer significant financing for loss and damages for the people of Niger Delta […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. November 11, 2022… Environmental activists across the country yesterday called on the Federal Government of Nigeria, to expedite action on Ogoni clean-up, even as they called on Shell and other Multinational oil companies to pay compensations to the people of Niger Delta for the environmental degradation and destruction since 1958 which has exacerbated climate crises that have […]