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National Security: A Panacea For An Indivisible Nigeria

February 2, 2015 by By CHARLES IYARE. The survival and effectiveness of a state is paramount to self serving interests of certain individuals, no matter how highly placed they may be in the society. It is important that the general well being of Nigerians is not sacrificed on the altar of possessive minded leaders. This therefore raises an important question […]

Presidential candidates tasked on pending oil subsidy cases

By Stella Omona, Snr Correspondent, Abuja Participants at a two-day workshop on monitoring and reporting of oil subsidy fraud/corruption cases in Nigeria have called on political parties and their presidential candidates to mainstream the issues of oil subsidy corruption into the campaign issues. The workshop was organised by Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), with support from Justice […]

Where is the Environment in our Elections?

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku On March 28th 2015, it is expected that Nigerians would troop out to elect a new president or continue to be managed according to the blueprint of the present administration of the PDP. Whatever reason was given for the shift of the presidential elections from February to March 2015 and the conspiracy theories that trailed the […]

COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AT THE END OF A TWO- DAY WORKSHOP ON MONITORING AND REPORTING OF OIL SUBSIDY FRAUD/CORRUPTION CASES IN NIGERIA, HELD AT HOTEL DE HORIZON, WUSE 2, ABUJA, 3- 4 FEBRUARY, 2015.

The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), with support from Justice for All (J4A) a window of funding of DfID, organised a two-day workshop from February 3-4, 2015 at the Hotel De Horizon, Wuse 2, Abuja. The workshop was part of activities of ANEEJ “Advocacy against impunity in oil subsidy regime in Nigeria” project. Twenty Two (22) participants […]

Civil Societies Take To The Streets Over Rot In The Oil Sector

January 30, 2015 by Yemisi Izuora orientalnewsng Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) led by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) carried out a massive mobilisation of the people in Lagos today demanding accountability and transparency in the oil and gas sector of the economy. The protesters are aggrieved over what they consider lack of accountability and looting in […]

Call For Postponement Of 2015 Elections, Suspicious

23rd January, 2015. The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), has condemned the Call made by the National Security Adviser to the president, Col. Sambo Dasuki at the Chatam House in Londonfor the postponement by three months of the February General Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission to postpone the General elections. “We applaud INEC for insisting […]

Effective Public Procurment System As Panacea To Sustainable Devt In Edo State

January 7, 2015 by Innocent Edemhanria The need to develop effective and efficient tools to hold government accountable to the people on issues of transparency and accountability in resource management has become increasingly important especially as we hit 2015, being the target set by United Nations to achieve millennium development goals (MDGs). Before now, in Edo State, the regulation of […]

ANEEJ Welcomes UK anti-corruption law for oil, gas and mining

The United Kingdom yesterday commenced the enforcement of the “Reports on Payments to Governments Regulations 2014” which was signed into law by Business Minister Jo Swinson MP on 28 November, 2014. The regulation provides for anti-corruption provisions for the oil, gas, mining and logging sectors as contained in Chapter 10 of the 2013 European Union Accounting Directive. “As a leading […]