November 9, 2015 PRESS RELEASE Benin City…..The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently reconstitute the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC, just as it urges the Federal Government to increase budgetary allocation to agencies set up to develop the Niger Delta region. Executive Director of ANEEJ, Rev David […]
as tension grips oil industry as Economic and Finacial Crimes Commission (EFCC) places more marketers on its wanted list, chieftains of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and erring marketers are meeting to avert the ‘dangling axe,’ reports SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, Adeola Yusuf. ( daily Independent ) 23- 10 – 15 Tension at the weekend gripped the Nigeria’s multi-billion dollars downstream oil […]
By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku The Benin Moats should be the Grand Canyon of Nigeria. They should be earning reasonable income for the Binis today and commanding the respect of the world. Perhaps it is with this in view that the Guinness Book of Records mentioned them in 1978. They are believed to have been constructed during the reigns of two […]
In most public and private schools in Nigeria, you find more than 50 to 100 pupils in a class, and most are sitting on floors to learn. They have no food, no school uniforms, and the failures of these primary and secondary schools reflect on what is going on in our universities. By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Last week, I attended […]
Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) joined the rest of the world to mark 2015 Global Handwashing with the theme “Raise a Hand for Hygiene”. It was an occasion to teach pupils and students from 10 government and private schools on how and when to wash their hands. The Global Handwashing Day is held every year on the […]
October, 19th 2015, Benin City…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has received the news of the abduction of Dr. Philip Ugbodaga, former chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, at a medical outreach in Imo State with shock and disbelief. ANEEJ notes that incidences of abduction and kidnap of prominent and well-meaning […]
August 10, 2015 : Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku ( Punch Newspaper) President, Muhammadu Buhari Without a doubt, serious discussions about the mitigation of corruption in Nigeria have taken a front seat since the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. As a matter of fact, if you were to take a look at the newspapers and you don’t read about how the […]
Abuja, Nigeria, 29th July 2015…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, is happy with the appointment of a new boss for the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme, Retired Brigadier General Paul T. Boroh, as the government of President Buhari seeks to address the frustrations and mismanagement bedeviling the Amnesty programme. “We have confidence in the choice of a non-political […]
( Published July 30 2015 daily Independent newspaper) Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, Communications manager with the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, in this piece examines the problem of inability of Media Houses in Nigeria to pay journalists’ salaries and suggest possible ways they can wriggle out of it On the 21st July, 2015, I read an article in The […]