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Nigerian states demand $2bn, end of fuel subsidy

Nov 19 2014 – 10:41am (The News Online) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: states want money from ECA The Chairman, State Finance Commissioners Forum, Timothy Odah, said that the Nigerian states want two billion dollars from the Excess Crude Account to enable them complete ongoing projects, as revenue allocations to them decline for the third month running. At the moment, the account has […]

Ensuring Access to Safe, Affordable Toilet for All

BY SANDRA EGUAGIE Can you imagine a residential building without toilet? Can you imagine a school without toilets? Can you imagine a business Centre without toilet? Can you imagine not having a toilet? Can you imagine defecating in the bush? Can you imagine defecating in plastic or polythene bags and throwing it into the bush, school compound, open field, gutter, […]

Fuel Subsidy Fraud: Court Adjourns Trial of Oil Marketer Till Feb 16

19 Nov 2014 An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday adjourned the trial of an oil marketer, Rowaye Jubril, charged with N963.7 million fuel subsidy fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that Jubril was charged before Justice Lateefat Okunnu by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He is being prosecuted alongside his company, Brila Energy Limited, over the […]

EFCC recovers more than N5bn from fuel subsidy scams

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) disclosed on Monday that it had retrieved more than N5 billion taken from oil subsidy, while over 40 suspects are now being charged in court for the offense. The Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, made the disclosure at a workshop organised for Journalists in the South-east zone held in Enugu. Tagged: “Effective […]

Curbing The Menace Of Climate Change

Kelly Ovie Umukoro 11/05/2014 11:02:15 Barack Obama, US President Recently, world leaders came together in New York to brainstorm on ways to tackle the challenges of climate change. President Barack Obama was among scores of world leaders at the gathering, which followed by days of mass demonstration in New York City in support of action to combat global warming. Among […]

ANEEJ CALLS FOR ABOLISION OF CRUDE OIL SWAPS

October 31, 2014 URGENT MEDIA RELEASE ANEEJ CALLS FOR ABOLISION OF CRUDE OIL SWAPS The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called on the Federal Government to abolish crude oil swaps without any further delay. ANEEJ in an advocacy position paper to the House of Representative Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) over the on-going inquiry on massive corruption […]

Advocacy Visit to House of Representative Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream)

From R-L: Ibrahim Sidi, Clerk, House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream); Boma S. Nwadike, Secretary, Office of the Chairman, Committee on Petroleum (Downstream); Dauda Garuba, Nigeria Program Coordinator, Natural Resource Governance Institute & Leo Atakpu, Deputy Executive Director, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice during the presentation of ANEEJ position paper on Oil Swap Deals by the Nigerian National […]

ANEEJ DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY ON NIGERIA OIL SWAP DEALS

PRESENTATION BY THE AFRICA NETWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE (ANEEJ) DURING ITS ADVOCACY VISIT TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM RESOURCES (DOWNSTREAM) ON OIL SWAP DEALS BY THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC), NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX ON MONDAY, 27 OCTOBER, 2014. Mr. Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) Members of the Committee Other members of the […]

Addressing Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria

By CHARLES IYARE The history of human right abuses in Nigeria is as old as Nigeria, herself. This is because the creation of the nation, Nigeria, was an abuse of the fundamental human right of the various entities that make up the Nigerian state. The high level of corruption in Nigeria especially in the government makes it absolutely impossible to […]

Govt insists on fuel subsidy removal

Tuesday, 28 October 2014 22:51 Written by Roseline Okere • Says downstream sector needs N3.2tr yearly investment • Reps to pass PIB by May 2015 WORRIED about the slow growth of the downstream oil and gas sector due to what it considered as a result of the regulated regime in the industry, the Federal Government yesterday stressed the need to eliminate price […]