September 18, 2017

NIGERIA OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP (OGP) SELF ASSESSMENT REPORT 2016-2017

INTRODUCTION Global advances in information and communications technology is reshaping citizen’s expectations from their governments. Continued lack of trust between government and citizens can potentially endanger democracy by negatively affecting the level of participation of citizens in democratic activities like elections. On the other hand, more openness will improve the level of trust between the two and improve legitimacy of […]

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September 15, 2017

ANEEJ LEADS REALITY OF AID MEETING IN PARIS

Background The Reality of Aid Network holds a Global Assembly for RoA members once in its two-year Report cycle. Its purpose is to engage members to debate key issues for the theme of the upcoming Global Report and to share national and regional experiences with other RoA members. It seeks interchange on crucial issues and builds capacities and ownership for […]

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August 31, 2017

EXTRADITION TREATY: ANEEJ COMMENDS BUHARI, URGES NASS TO SEAL TREATIES

31stAugust 2017 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed its excitement about the recent treaties signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, and has commended the President for demonstrating that by signing these treaties with the United Arab Emirates, it is genuinely committed to bringing corrupt public officials who stole from the common purse and hiding […]

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August 24, 2017

DO NO HARM IN ANEEJ

BACKGROUND  On the 21st day of August, 2017, officials of the Christian Rural Development Association of Nigeria, CRUDAN, visited ANEEJ. From the 17th – 18th of August, 2017,  ANEEJ Charles Iyare conducted a Training of Trainers, ToT, program for lecturers and professors drawn from universities across Nigeria.  As a consequence of that training programme of the Bread for the World, […]

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August 23, 2017

ANEEJ CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – EOI

Background It is a common knowledge that Nigeria, like many other countries in Africa suffers severe leakage of its public resources through corrupt means. Public funds that could be better used to address critical sectors for national development, such as health, education, electricity, roads, and other infrastructural projects for the social, political and economic well-being of the country are diverted […]

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July 28, 2017

PASSAGE OF SECOND TRANCHE HOST COMMUNITY PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL: ANEEJ COMMENDS SENATE

Press Release 28th July, 2017 Abuja Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has lauded the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and commended it for the courage it has displayed in quickly passing the host community Petroleum Industry bill after second reading, and which has eventually established a framework relating to the petroleum producing host community’s participation, […]

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July 24, 2017

PUBLISH NAMES OF SUSPENDED NDDC CONTRACTORS, USE RECOVERED FUNDS FOR ABANDONED PROJECTS, ANEEJ URGES NDDC

23rd July 2017 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has saluted the NDDC for its courage in suspending 600 contracts with abandoned projects worth N200bn, together with the NDDC resolve to prosecute the defaulting banks and contractors linked to the cancelled contracts. ANEEJ executive director, the Rev David Ugolor who made the commendation […]

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July 19, 2017

ANEEJ HAILS UNITED STATES CIVIL SUIT SEEKING FORFEITURE AND RECOVERY OF NIGERIAN LOOT

Press Release 19th July 2017 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has commended the filing of a civil suit by the United States Department of Justice, DOJ, to forfeit and recover over $100million laundered in and through the US, and has tasked the Nigerian government to follow through with the plan to assist the United […]

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July 17, 2017

BATTLE OF THE REFINERIES?

The federal government said in 2016, through the Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources, that Nigeria was putting in place measures in the oil sector aimed at meeting the needs of Nigeria’s local consumption before the year 2019. There is also information to the effect that the federal government is planning the concession of some of our refineries. If that is […]

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July 11, 2017

IS BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP TRANSPARENCY POSSIBLE IN NIGERIA?

People or entities whose real identities are shrouded in secrecy probably own more than half of the choice properties in Abuja, Nigeria. Part of the reason for this opacity is because they are probably current or former public officials, senior military officers, politicians, and politically exposed persons (PEPs), whose source of stupendous wealth cannot be explained, except to say that […]

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