Background The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice (ANEEJ) under DFID grant – Monitoring Asset Recovery in Nigeria through Transparency & Accountability – is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the design of CSOs monitoring website that will be used for the reporting of how Cash Transfer (CT) of the Abacha loot is evenly distributed among enlisted beneficiaries. […]
CONTEXT The key to unraveling the puzzle of dirty money being used to acquire property in the UK was a Klepto Bus ride undertaken in the UK in 2017. But apart from that there is the Unexplained Wealth Orders, UWO, a UK Policy of putting the burden of proof on the owners of suspiciously acquired wealth. The Africa Network for […]
CONTEXT Over the last week or so, there has been heightened interest amongst Nigerians about the use of the most recently repatriated $322.5 million Abacha loot. The questions raised around the issue include the choice of using the money for the conditional cash transfer programme of the Federal Government, the fairness of the choice of states benefitting from the programme, […]
The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has held a CSO Dialogue on Asset Recovery in Abuja, Nigeria, 27th June, 2018. The purpose of the CSO Dialogue on Asset Recovery included raising of awareness of the public on the outcome of GFAR, to reach a common understanding common understanding on how Nigeria can take the commitments made at GFAR forward […]
Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, CAO collaborated with the IFC Country Office in Nigeria and several leading Nigerian civil society organizations (CSOs) to host an outreach event in Lagos and Abuja on May 17, 2018. The purpose of the meeting—which took place in-person and via videoconference from Washington DC—was to raise awareness about CAO’s role as IFC’s independent accountability mechanism, improve understanding […]
Background: At the Global Forum for Asset Recovery, GFAR, event in Washington, DC, December 2-4 2017, there were strong suggestions that for the asset recovery campaign to garner interest and momentum, creating a global platform for CSO work on asset recovery and kleptocracy would be useful, and that holding some form of event for CSOs on Asset Recovery during 2018 […]
BACKGROUND TO MANTRA PROJECT Corruption is a major problem in Nigeria and is largely responsible for widespread poverty and underdevelopment. According to the UN and the AU, around $148 billion is stolen from Africa annually by politically exposed persons, multinational corporations, the business elite and civil servants with complicity of banking and property industries in Europe, North America and elsewhere. […]
Background The National Cash Transfer Programme is one of the four programme areas under the Social Investment Programme that provides monthly stipends of N5000 to the poor and vulnerable. On Monday 28th May 2018, officials of the programme invited key CSOs, including the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, to an interactive breakfast session with the National Cash […]
15th May, 2018 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has applauded the plan by the Buhari administration to expend the $322.5million loot returned from Switzerland to Nigeria on the poorest of the poor through a conditional Cash Transfer Programme. In a statement released to the media after 8th Commonwealth Conference on Anti-Corruption, organized […]
OGP Nigeria Week Background & Concept The Government of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has been focused on combating corruption and achieving an open and transparent government. At the London Summit on Anti-Corruption, the Government committed to strengthening anti-corruption measures through implementing programs aimed at: exposing corruption; punishing the corrupt and providing support to the victims of corruption and […]