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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 […]

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 […]