Advocates for Climate Reparations, Loss and Damage Fund, and Just Energy Transition BENIN CITY, NIGERIA, November 12, 2024… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) delegation to the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference, being held from November 11 to November 22, 2024, will today arrive Baku, Azerbaijan for the conference. ANEEJ Executive Director, the Rev. David Ugolor, […]
BY MATTHEW MEGWAI On November 6, Donald Trump was confirmed elected as the 47th President of the United States, a development that could have significant repercussions on global climate change efforts. While the election results were expected to take longer to confirm, they were declared within 24 hours, signalling an immediate shift. With Trump’s return to power, the climate movement […]
BY HUSSEIN ADELEYE As the climate crisis continues to bite harder, its impact is starkly felt across communities, ecosystems, and economies. Central to this crisis is our persistent dependence on fossil fuels which not only drives up carbon emissions, accelerating global warming, but also inflicts severe environmental harm in vulnerable regions where extraction is concentrated. For years, scientists, environmental activists, […]
Background The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) is currently implementing the Civil Society Advocacy to Strengthen Anti-corruption Reforms in Nigeria (CASARN) project. The project is supported by the International IDEA under the Rule of Law and Anti-corruption (RoLAC II) project with funding from the European Union (EU) and aims to combat grand corruption in Nigeria through civil society […]
In December 2017, the Swiss Government returned $322.5m looted by the late General Sani Abacha, to Nigeria. The monies otherwise came to be known as Abacha II. The recovered loot was channeled to finance the National Cash Transfer Programme by the federal government of Nigeria under the Nigeria National Social Safety Net Project (NASSP). NASSP is one of the social […]
Lagos, Nigeria. October 12, 2024… Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu and his government “to stop the ‘weaponization’ of the country’s security agencies to target Nigerians simply for the peaceful exercise of their human rights, and to direct the Department of State Services (DSS) to immediately withdraw the baseless defamation lawsuit by their proxies against […]
…. urges more action to tackle climate, debt crisis BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. October 21, 2024 – As the world marks World Poverty Day October 17, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a leading organization dedicated to poverty eradication and promoting economic justice in Africa, has called on the Nigerian government, African leaders, and the international community to […]
Introduction: A hybrid listening session on enhancing the UNCAC Implementation Review Mechanism (IRM) was held in Vienna on 15 October, 2024. The event brought together various non-governmental stakeholders to discuss key improvements to the next phase of the UNCAC Implementation Review Mechanism. The session presided over by Christine Cline, President of the Conference of the State Parties to UNCAC and […]
Introduction: The undersigned Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), working on anticorruption and good governance, express deep concern and unequivocal condemnation of the recent actions of some State Governors targeted at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), and by implications other anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) in the country such as the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other related […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA – October 16, 2024 – The Peoples AGM, a broad coalition of over 60 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) committed to environmental and social justice, has commended the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) for its decision to reject Shell’s proposed $1.3 billion sale of its onshore oilfields to the Renaissance Group and called on Shell to fix […]