EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Niger Delta Region with vast oil reserves and source of Nigeria’s wealth accounts for more than 80% of the revenue earnings for the 1country’s annual budget. Yet the effect of the oil exploration in the host communities especially at the creeks had led to serious environmental degradation affecting their primary sources of livelihood which contributes to high […]
Background The approval of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) by the Federal Executive Council on 5th July, 2017, evidences the continuous strides of the present administration to combat corruption in Nigeria. The main objective of the NACS is to identify and close existing gaps in the anti-corruption initiatives currently in place. The strategy is an insight into the government’s fight […]
September 2 2018. Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, and Actionaid will hold a round table meeting in Abuja Nigeria to analyse new approaches to tackling corruption in Nigeria. Traditional approaches in tackling corruption in Nigeria have not yielded the desired results. Instead, emerging issues including ethnic, religious and political threads tend to undermine the […]
Press Release 30th August 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed deep dismay and bewilderment at President Buhari’s decision not to sign the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, into law and has urged him to reconsider his stance in the interest of Nigerians. Presidential assent to the PIGB has been withheld on the […]
28th August 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has hailed the return of 70million pounds seized from an unnamed Nigerian in the UK, and has called on the Nigerian government to put the funds to use on a legacy project under transparent and accountable terms. ANEEJ, executive director, the Rev David Ugolor who made […]
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, was constituted in August 2015. It was the very first committee President Buhari set up after he was sworn into office on May 29th 2015. PACAC commenced work on August 10, 2015 with the mandate to, inter alia – promote the reform agenda of the government on the anti-corruption effort, to advise the […]
Many years before the return of stolen Nigerian monies stashed in foreign countries, ANEEJ had been at the forefront of the campaign. In 2004, ANEEJ coordinated civil society organisations to monitor how the Abacha loot, $500million, returned from Switzerland was spent. That activity culminated in a report, SHADOW REPORT ON THE PEMFAR MONITORING EXERCISE here: https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/files/documents/Potentatengelder/Report_Abacha.pdf, authored by Reverend David […]
Abuja, Nigeria… The Law of least effort states that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, certain individuals will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. Not ANEEJ and not its staff. That was why on the 17th day in the month of August anno domini, the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, […]
Background The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice (ANEEJ) under DFID grant – Monitoring Asset Recovery in Nigeria through Transparency & Accountability – is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the design of CSOs monitoring website that will be used for the reporting of how Cash Transfer (CT) of the Abacha loot is evenly distributed among enlisted beneficiaries. […]
Of the over 100 persons attending on behalf of Niger Delta communities, civil society organizations, government agencies, Niger Delta Institutions and media organizations who converged at the Best Western Hotel, Benin City on August 2, 2018, for a Niger Delta Institutions Learning Forum, two of them – the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) and Leadership Initiative […]