BY Innocent Edemhanria Ogoniland, located in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, is home to the Ogoni people, who have long suffered the consequences of oil exploitation. Since the discovery of oil in the region by Shell in 1958, Ogoniland has been at the heart of Nigeria’s oil economy, contributing significantly to national revenues. However, for decades, the Ogoni people have endured devastating […]
Port Harcourt, Nigeria. February 4, 2025…. EXECUTIVE Director of Africa Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev. David Ugolor, has advised President Bola Tinubu to conclude the clean-up of Ogoni land in Rivers State and restore the environment polluted by the oil companies before talking about resuming oil exploration in the Niger-Delta terrain. Rev. Ugolor, who reacted to the […]
The 3rd Peoples AGM was convened by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) on May 20, 2024, in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. The event had in attendance 45 participants drawn from the leadership of key civil society organization from the Niger Delta including representatives of Women, youths’ groups, religious groups from host communities and the media. The […]
Ahead of Shell’s AGM next week, investors are at odds over voting for a climate resolution filed against UK oil and gas supermajor Shell as one of its biggest shareholders has come out to back the board By Aysha Gilmore CONTENT TAGS: ENGAGEMENT TRANSITION STEWARDSHIP DISCLOSURES UK SCANDINAVIA Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which has $1.4trn of assets under management and one of Shell’s biggest shareholders (3%), […]
On Tuesday February 13, 2024, The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) convened a meeting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria to reflect on Ken Saro Wiwa’s struggles for environmental justice in the Niger Delta and to also discuss emerging issues that have implication for the environment in the region. The meeting had in attendance 47 participants drawn from […]
We at ANEEJ (Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice) have been working to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the damages that have been caused in the Niger Delta. Norway’s Oil Fund (managed by Norges Bank Investment Management – NBIM) is a top three shareholder in Shell. In 2013 Norway’s Ministry of Finance directed the Oil Fund to engage […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. June 5, 2023… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a Benin City based non-governmental Organisation has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the 10th National Assembly to take pragmatic steps enact policies to end Plastic Pollution in Nigeria even as it calls on Shell, Chevron and other Multinational Oil Companies operating in Nigeria […]
Terms of Reference (ToR) Short documentary video on the impact of oil exploration activities on the environment and the people’s health and livelihood in the Niger Delta Context Rising temperatures in Africa have already led to the loss of endemic flora and fauna in fragile ecosystems throughout Nigeria, with attendant impacts on communities. Now Nigeria is likely to be a […]
We welcome the leadership that you are providing in this vital year for our climate, such as your work convening global faith leaders ahead of the Glasgow summit. We fully agree with your statement that: “We all have both a moral and financial responsibility to address the climate emergency and to use those tools available to us to support the […]
Introduction Poverty has become a major development problem in Nigeria. The World Poverty Clock report released in 2018 shows Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the most extreme poor people in the world. The struggle to lift more citizens out of extreme poverty is an indictment on successive Nigerian governments which have mismanaged the country’s vast oil resources […]