Culled from ThisDay, 3rd May 2018 You have devoted half of your life (24 years) to advocacy for a better society…how has the struggle been and can you recall 3 landmark events that have helped shaped your activism? Looking back to how I started from Sapele to Iguobazuwa in Ovia South-West Local Government, Edo State, I would say that a […]
Civil Society Organisations have frowned at what they described as malfunctioning anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria saying their failure would hinder the fight against corruption. According to them, the absence of substantial chairmen for the agencies is limiting their capacity to perform. Specifically, the Executive Director, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), David Ugolor said the offices of the […]
An engagement meeting with the Ministry of Solid Minerals, Oil and Gas, held on Friday 30th of April 2018 at the Commissioner’s office in Benin. Led by ANEEJ Executive Director, Rev David Ugolor, there were a total number of thirteen persons in attendance: 4 from ANEEJ, 5 from the Ministry and 4 from Media. The Honourable commissioner of the Ministry, Hon. […]
A fundamental question which arose from the breakthrough of the internet was the expediency of giving everybody access. That question came at time in the early 80s after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of Communist USSR and the fall of the Cold War era, where state official and unofficial secrecy was the lifeblood running right through […]
On a certain day in January this year, I left home for work as usual. The lingering fuel scarcity had not completely abated, and therefore what most residents of the Benin City metropolis did to avoid the cut-throat fares that commercial taxi and bus drivers ask, for long and short distances is a resort to the popular Comrade buses. In […]
BACKGROUND The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has the responsibility of working with national stakeholders towards achieving effective support to anti-corruption coordination, policy formulation and legislation. Their second objective is to strengthen institutional and operational capacity in the main anti-corruption agencies, with an emphasis on cooperation and third, to enhance accountability, transparency and public engagement. The third […]
The Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement project implemented by ANEEJ/LITE-Africa and her Cluster members sought to improve the capacity of CSOs to engage the Niger Delta Institutions (NDDC, Ministry of Niger Delta, Oil and Gas Commissions in Delta, Edo Ondo, Abia & Imo States) to be more effective and as well make them accountable to the people in terms of […]
Friday March 2, 2018. Technology without human beings is nothing. But human beings with technology, everything is happening, the good and the bad. On the bad side, […]
The African saying is true, that a toad does not show up in the daytime for nothing. It is either that something is after its life or it is after something. In this case, two heavyweights in the development sector in Nigeria – the Rev David Ugolor (ANEEJ Executive Director) and Hon Joel Bisina (LITE-Africa Executive Director), showed up in […]
In the past, it was very difficult to steal the huge amounts of money we hear being stolen and swallowed today. Looting of public funds was minimal, and my guess is that this was because technology had not advanced to the extent that it has today. I remember back then that a notable politician once said that if he were […]