CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT AT THE END OF THE 3RD NIGER DELTA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT FORUM (NDCEF 2017) ON 13TH NOVEMBER, 2017 The 3rd Niger Delta Civic Engagement Forum (NDCEF 2017) organized by Strengthening Advocacy and Citizen Engagement (SACE), a governance project funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Partnership Initiatives for the Niger Delta (PIND), was held on […]
Background Key to the objective of the ANEEJ-SERAP pre-GFAR Consultative Summit in Abuja, 26th October, 2017 is the need to develop an enduring asset recovery framework for Nigeria with a harmonised message to the inaugural GFAR summit in Washington DC in December, 2017. To build on this, ANEEJ has attended a Development and Investment in Africa: Strategy and Advocacy Workshop at […]
Background BEING THE UK HIGH COMMISSIONER’S OPENING REMARKS PRE-GLOBAL FORUM ON ASSET RECOVERY, ABUJA, 26 OCTOBER 2017 I am extremely pleased to join national and international partners here today for this pre-GFAR consultative meeting, in the lead up to the main event in Washington in December. Thank you for inviting me to make these brief opening remarks. As some of […]
Background: Consequent upon request from Olga Amestitova, Rule-of-Law Expert for the EU and GIZ, ANEEJ executive director the Rev David Ugolor has submitted his bio preparatory to his speech at the UN CoSP 7 side event. Official side events are a platform for admitted observer organizations, which have limited speaking opportunities in the formal negotiations, to engage with Parties and other […]
6th November 2017 Press Release Vienna, Austria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has urged the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari to provide leadership by demonstrating that all those mentioned in the Panama Papers Leak as well as the recently released Paradise Report will not only be investigated and brought to justice, but their looted assets will be recovered […]
Background At the ANEEJ-SERAP pre-GFAR Consultative meeting in Abuja 26th October 2017, the Federal government of Nigeria announced that it had recovered $USS85million of the Malabu deal. Other groundbreaking remarks and commitments from the Nigerian Government which the announcement above seemed to overshadow are contained in the speech by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon Abubakar Malami, SAN. […]
Background Being remarks/talking points by Eric Mayoraz, Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, on the occasion of the ANEEJ-SERAP pre-GFAR Consultative Summit at the Reiz Continental Hotel, Abuja, 26th October, 2017, with the theme: Building an enduring framework for Asset Recovery in Nigeria Pre-GFAR Consultative Meeting, Africa Network, Abuja, 26.10.2017 Switzerland is committed to fight against corruption and changed in the last […]
$321m LOOT: FEC APPROVES MOU WITH SWITZERLAND by Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Published November 1, 2017 http://punchng.com/321m-loot-fec-approves-mou-with-switzerland/ The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a Memorandum of Understanding between Nigeria and Switzerland that will lead to the repatriation of $321m stolen fund to the country. The Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), disclosed this to State House correspondents at the […]
31st October, 2017 Press release Abuja, Nigeria… Even though the sack of the former Secretary to the Government (SGF), Mr. Babachir Lawal and the Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke is belated, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has asked Mr President to go the hog to prosecute the duo. This statement was made in […]
Background The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), an open platform that unites CSOs from around the world on the issue of development effectiveness. We strive to make development more effective by reshaping the global aid architecture and empowering CSOs working on the ground. In promoting development effectiveness in all areas of work, both our own and the work of […]