The Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement, SACE, 2-Day Inaugural/Strategic Planning Meeting for the NDDC Independent CSOs Committee held at the Aldgate Congress Resort, Port Harcourt on the 12th to 13th of September, 2017. The meeting was co-organised by the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, and the Leadership Leadership Initiative for Transformation and Empowerment (LITE-Africa). It was attended […]
ANEEJ AUGUST NEWSLETTER 2017 From the editor-in-chief: This edition of ANEEJ quarterly newsletter (click link above) is a loaded package. It came at a time when ANEEJ deputy executive director, Leo Atakpu (who is the Reality of AID chairperson) attended the RoA meeting in Paris and steered discussions on preparing and sending out discussion papers, assignment of main discussants for […]
Background The Reality of Aid Network holds a Global Assembly for RoA members once in its two-year Report cycle. Its purpose is to engage members to debate key issues for the theme of the upcoming Global Report and to share national and regional experiences with other RoA members. It seeks interchange on crucial issues and builds capacities and ownership for […]
06 September, 2017 Akure, Nigeria….Ahead of the Second Niger Delta Council beginning today in Akure, the Ondo State capital, a coalition of Civil Society Organisations in the Niger Delta has called on the Council of Niger Delta to ensure greater openness, transparency and accountability of Niger Delta Institutions (NDIs). In a press release issued by the coalition and signed […]
Recent reports from around the world indicate that soon, there’s going to be a shift from a fossil reliant economy to a green one. That shift promises to be asymmetrical. Countries like the UK and Germany, after having spent a lot of money on research and implementation, have already set 2030/2040 to stop relying on gasoline to run their […]
31stAugust 2017 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed its excitement about the recent treaties signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, and has commended the President for demonstrating that by signing these treaties with the United Arab Emirates, it is genuinely committed to bringing corrupt public officials who stole from the common purse and hiding […]
Last week, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, released a report with a damning verdict: that irrespective of the good work being done by this administration to kill corruption, corruption has refused to die. The report said that monies paid out in 2015 and 2016 as bribes is about N400 billion, and that the police and the judiciary were most […]
BACKGROUND On the 21st day of August, 2017, officials of the Christian Rural Development Association of Nigeria, CRUDAN, visited ANEEJ. From the 17th – 18th of August, 2017, ANEEJ Charles Iyare conducted a Training of Trainers, ToT, program for lecturers and professors drawn from universities across Nigeria. As a consequence of that training programme of the Bread for the World, […]
Background It is a common knowledge that Nigeria, like many other countries in Africa suffers severe leakage of its public resources through corrupt means. Public funds that could be better used to address critical sectors for national development, such as health, education, electricity, roads, and other infrastructural projects for the social, political and economic well-being of the country are diverted […]
Press Release 28th July, 2017 Abuja Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has lauded the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and commended it for the courage it has displayed in quickly passing the host community Petroleum Industry bill after second reading, and which has eventually established a framework relating to the petroleum producing host community’s participation, […]