Press Release 3rd December, 2015 Benin City, Edo State…With Nigeria, South Africa, Myanmar, Kenya, and 36 other states and governments haven voted against a UN Resolution seeking to protect human rights defenders, ANEEJ reiterates its belief in the fundamental rights of all men to be equal before the law and in the eyes of God. Human Rights Defenders are activists […]
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 Press Release 24 November2015 Benin City, Edo State…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Benin City, will convene a workshop for journalists in Cross River State. The workshop will focus on “The Role of the Media in Institutionalizing Good Governance in the Niger Delta”, to be held in pursuance of the “Resource Governance Enhancement […]
19 November PRESS RELEASE BENIN CITY——-The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) joins the rest of the world to observe this year’s World Toilet Day which focuses on toilets and nutrition. The simple act of separating feces (human or animal) from human contact and the environment has a way of improving the nutritional status of man and also […]
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 […]