During the year in review, we made giant strides and experienced some challenges as well. Our staff, beneficiaries, partners and donors were key enablers of our success. During the year 2019, ANEEJ, was able to, with support of staff and board members attract more local and international funding. We mobilized over 700 NGOs, community based organisations and individuals across the […]
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. December 17, 2019…. The use of recovered assets for the realization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) comes under sharp focus at a panel billed to hold on Thursday 19 December, 2019 at the ongoing Eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption holding at Abu Dhabi, United Arabs Emirates. […]
Abuja, Nigeria. December 9, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) calls on all stakeholders including government, civil society, development partners and citizens to be united in supporting the use of recovered assets in Nigeria to fund social investment programmes and other pro-poor initiatives. As we mark World Anticorruption Day 2019, it is important to take stock […]
Paris, France. November 28, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ a Benin City, Nigeria Civil Society Organisation has said the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme is an important model of Aid and development effectiveness which is capable of changing numerous development challenges buffeting Africa if replicated by other OECD-DAC countries. Deputy Executive Director of ANEEJ, Mr. […]
Wednesday, 7th November 2019 – visiting World Bank Expert, Aaron Bornstein who is in Nigeria as a guest of the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has said that the $322.5million returned Abacha loot returned to Nigeria by the Swiss government actually belongs to the Nigerian people. Mr Bornstein stated this via Skype in an early morning discussion […]
Benin City, Nigeria. November 4, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice ANEEJ is set to engage internationally acclaimed asset Recovery expert in Benin City Edo state, Aaron Bornstein, formerly Executive director of the BOTA Foundation of Kazakhstan, to examine Civil Society role in recalibrating returned assets to alleviate poverty. Mr. Bornstein, an anti-corruption consultant for the World […]
The bigger picture Our quarterly newsletters are always full of information about our work – from workshops for financial investigators to legislative assistance on the legal framework for asset declarations and consultations on non-conviction based forfeiture laws. That’s because we want to use this platform to give you a little insight into what we do. But how do all these activities […]
By Rev David Ugolor & Dr. Ayibakuro Matthew At the start of this week, a total of 724 field monitors were deployed across 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja for the second phase of the monitoring of the use of the $322.5 million Abacha loot returned from Switzerland in 2018. By the end of the monitoring exercise, they […]
Background: Being Independent Civil Society Field Monitoring Report of the disbursed part of $322.5million for the August/September 2018 payment Round of the National Cash Transfer Programme. Click link to see details of report: https://www.aneej.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Mantra-Field-Report-final-compressed.pdf
Benin City, Nigeria. October 1, 2019…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has thrown its weight behind a call from the Edo State Government for a forensic probe of the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, owing to shoddy, incomplete, abandoned and substandard projects executed by the NDDC in the past six months. ANEEJ Executive Director, the Rev David […]