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 […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. June 5, 2019…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has called on the Federal Government to take urgent steps to end the importation of dirty fuels which are high in sulphur into the country perpetrated by unscrupulous petrol and diesel dealers in keeping with its commitments on Paris Declaration on Climate Change. Executive Director of ANEEJ, Rev David […]
Press Release 5th November, 2017. Abuja, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed dismay and bewilderment at the March 2017 withdrawal of the United States from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, and its recent ratification of November 2017 of that withdrawal from the EITI as an implementing country. In a statement released shortly after the US […]
Public Eye (formerly Berne Declaration) Press Release Zurich/Lausanne/Accra, October 4, 2016 Dirty Diesel: Toxic Air from Africa Returns to Switzerland Today, the “Irenes Rainbow” left the Port of Accra and set course for Antwerp. On board is a container labelled “Return to Sender” which Public Eye and its African partner organizations plan to deliver to the door of the trading […]
At a meeting on Low Carbon Growth for Nigeria which ANEEJ participated in Abuja today, key stakeholders from the business sector and Civil Society discussed issues bordering the reduction of carbon emissions to mitigate the spectre of Climate Change. In September 15, 2016 ANEEJ held a world press conference on the importation of dirty fuel followed by a press release […]
Background Brussels/Madrid, 25 January 2017 Over forty civil society organisations have endorsed a joint letter initiated by Access Info Europe and Oceana to urge Members of the European Parliament to vote in favour of a proposed Regulation that will help fight illegal fishing by increasing transparency about the owners of EU flagged vessels. The Regulation on the sustainable management of external fishing fleets will set up […]
This report was published in www.nigeriansinameria.com and with TELL Magazine in 2008. Because the issues are still relevant today on World Toilet Day, 19th November 2016, we have decided to reproduce the article to complement that already written by Sandra Eguagie, programme Officer, ANEEJ. While most Nigerians, particularly in Lagos, Nigeria, from whatever social class they belong, have no access […]
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