EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Niger Delta Region with vast oil reserves and source of Nigeria’s wealth accounts for more than 80% of the revenue earnings for the 1country’s annual budget. Yet the effect of the oil exploration in the host communities especially at the creeks had led to serious environmental degradation affecting their primary sources of livelihood which contributes to high […]
Press Release 30th August 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed deep dismay and bewilderment at President Buhari’s decision not to sign the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, into law and has urged him to reconsider his stance in the interest of Nigerians. Presidential assent to the PIGB has been withheld on the […]
Many years before the return of stolen Nigerian monies stashed in foreign countries, ANEEJ had been at the forefront of the campaign. In 2004, ANEEJ coordinated civil society organisations to monitor how the Abacha loot, $500million, returned from Switzerland was spent. That activity culminated in a report, SHADOW REPORT ON THE PEMFAR MONITORING EXERCISE here: https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/files/documents/Potentatengelder/Report_Abacha.pdf, authored by Reverend David […]
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 (Culled from OGP website https://www.opengovpartnership.org/events/ogp-global-summit-2018-tbilisi). As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), Georgia will host the 5th OGP Global Summitin Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 17-19, 2018. Representatives from OGP’s 96 national and local participants — heads of state and governments, ministers, public servants, members of parliament, local authorities, civil society representatives, international foundations, researchers, academia and journalists — will gather […]
CONTEXT This inception meeting in Yenogao Bayelsa State, Nigeria was convened 16th July 2018 for the purpose of stepping down Open Government Partnership, OGP, for Bayelsa state in accordance with the mandate of the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, as co-chair of the National Action Working Group on Anti-Corruption. The meeting took place with the active collaboration […]
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 […]
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 A one-day validation workshop with NDDC officials on the draft Independent CSOs project monitoring report was facilitated by ANEEJ/LITE-Africa at the Dannic Hotel in Port Harcourt, May 15, 2018. Present at the workshop were the CSOs Coalition members, NDDC officials, SACE, CSOs and Media, making a total of 30 participants. The NDDC officials present at the meeting were Okarevu […]
Background The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) is the independent accountability mechanism for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), members of the World Bank Group. CAO addresses grievances from people impacted by IFC and MIGA projects with the goal of improving environmental and social outcomes on the ground. CAO recently launched an outreach initiative geared to CSOs in […]