Communications Officer The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a Non-Government and non-profit organization based in Benin City, Edo State with Advocacy Office in Abuja seeks the services of a Communications Officer to strengthen its pool of Programme Staff. The Communications Officer will be based in our head office in Benin City but with possibility of extensive travels. […]
VACANCY Finance Manager The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a Non-Government and non-profit organization based in Benin City, Edo State with Advocacy Office in Abuja seeks to strengthen our management team under its Transparency and Accountability in the return and Management of looted Assets Project being supported by British Department for International Development (DFID) under the Anti-Corruption […]
BENIN CITY, December 9, 2018. On the occasion of this year’s World Anti-Corruption Day, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has called on Nigerians to deepen the search for innovative ways to change the norms fuelling corruption in Nigeria. Executive Director of ANEEJ, Rev David Ugolor on the occasion of 2018 World Anti-Corruption Day says “Issues of corruption […]
It has been just over a week since the two leading political parties in Nigeria – the PDP and the APC – launched their respective presidential campaigns. Beyond the fanfare and contrivances that overly dominate electioneering times, it is critical to our democratic experience that the promises and plans of candidates and parties are not taken for granted. It is […]
BACKGROUND Corruption remains a perennial challenge to development in Nigeria. Despite its wealth of massive crude oil deposits and other resources, the country continues to experience widespread poverty and underdevelopment. According to the UN and the AU, around $148 billion is stolen from Africa annually by political leaders, multinational corporations, the business elite and civil servants with complicity of banking […]
Over the past week, the two leading political parties in Nigeria – The All Progressives Congress (APC) the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) launched their respective campaigns for the 2019 Presidential elections. Whilst the APC chose “Next Level” as the theme of its campaign, the PDP decided on “Let’s Get Nigeria working Again”. The documents released by both parties espousing their […]
Context/Background The meeting with six leading political parties in Nigeria is in furtherance of the Monitoring of Recovered Assets Through Transparency & Accountability, MANTRA, as part of the DFID Anti-Corruption in Nigeria, ACORN. The meeting sought to set the tone and tenor for a future roundtable on asset recovery, anti-corruption, transparency & accountability in governance, with leading political parties in […]
The year 2018 is on its death knell. That knelling relentlessly brings Nigerians closer to the 2019 General Elections at a pace quicker and faster than we all imagine. Therefore, one question Nigerians are already preoccupied with has to do with the choice of president for the next four years. And of course there is valid reason to be either […]
Background: Before the Open Government Partnership (OGP) was successfully launched by the Edo State Government, ANEEJ had been there working. With her Open Niger Delta Project, OPENED, ANEEJ trained members of the Civil Society on the theory and practice of the OGP on the 27th day of September, 2018. Just two days after that training Civil Society Organizations met, independently of […]
Abuja, November 18, 2018. Revenue disbursements by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to the three tiers of government has witnessed a steady increase in three consecutive quarters of this year with N2.28 trillion shared in Q3 of 2018. A breakdown shows that the Federal government received the highest sum of N904.8 billion, followed by states, which received N718.5 billion […]