Defend Rights Defenders, ANEEJ says on World Rights/Anti-Corruption Days

Press Release 3rd December, 2015 Benin City, Edo State…With Nigeria, South Africa, Myanmar, Kenya, and 36 other states and governments haven voted against a UN Resolution seeking to protect human rights defenders, ANEEJ reiterates its belief in the fundamental rights of all men to be equal before the law and in the eyes of God. Human Rights Defenders are activists […]

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Who Will Save The Benin Moats?

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku The Benin Moats should be the Grand Canyon of Nigeria.  They should be earning reasonable income for the Binis today and commanding the respect of the world. Perhaps it is with this in view that the Guinness Book of Records mentioned them in 1978.  They are believed to have been constructed during the reigns of two […]

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World University Rankings And Nigeria

In most public and private schools in Nigeria, you find more than 50 to 100 pupils in a class, and most are sitting on floors to learn. They have no food, no school uniforms, and the failures of these primary and secondary schools reflect on what is going on in our universities. By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Last week, I attended […]

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Mr. President, bring back the loot

August 10, 2015 : Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku ( Punch Newspaper)   President, Muhammadu Buhari Without a doubt, serious discussions about the mitigation of corruption in Nigeria have taken a front seat since the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. As a matter of fact, if you were to take a look at the newspapers and you don’t read about how the […]

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Hunger Is A Nigerian Journalist

( Published July 30 2015  daily Independent newspaper)  Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, Communications manager with the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, in this piece examines the problem of inability of Media Houses in Nigeria to pay journalists’ salaries and suggest possible ways they can wriggle out of it On the 21st July, 2015, I read an article in The […]

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Hurdles before illicit funds repatriation

By Collins Olayinka, Abuja on June 3, 2015 Buhari THERE have been arguments that the monies that are looted from African countries are enough to end hunger and put the continent on the path of irreversible development. While there have been continental and inter-continental agreements reached between developing countries where these monies are looted and developed countries where they are […]

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When Are We Going To Run Government Without Oil Money?

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku A couple of days ago, newly-elected governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, went on a visit to the President elect, General Muhammadu Buhari. Before they got there, there were speculations in the media as to what their mission to the president elect would be. That visit threw up two questions for me: one, why were […]

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Imperative Of A Second Truth And Reconciliation Commission

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku & Innocent Edemhanria, Communications Manager and Project Officer, respectively of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice(ANEEJ),in this piece, canvass for the setting up of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission by the President-elect,General Muhammadu Buhari to address the endemic issues of corruption in Nigeria… Buhari Buhari Relying on a paper published by Kevin Avruch and Beatriz Vejarano […]

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