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 […]
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 […]
Press Release 1 November, 2017. Abuja, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has applauded the verdict of a French court in confiscating all property linked to Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and son of the President and handing him a suspended three-year prison sentence and a suspended fine of USSD$35million for embezzling over $174million […]
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 […]
Press Release 24th October, 2017 Benin City, Nigeria…Ahead of the Global Forum on Stolen Assets Recovery, GFAR, summit billed to take place in Washington DC, December 2-4, 2017, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP have organized a pre-GFAR Summit in Abuja Nigeria, seeking to forge enduring alliances with friends […]
5th October, 2017. Benin City, Nigeria….The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has called on the National Assembly to, as a matter of urgency pass the Petroleum Industry Bill, so as to nip in the bud further confusion generated by the rift between the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, and Group Managing Director of the […]
27th September 2017 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has urged the United Kingdom, UK, and the US, together with the EU to live up to all commitments made to assist Nigeria eliminate the bottlenecks of international legal systems in the repatriation of wealth looted from Nigeria by politically exposed persons, PEP. The Rev […]
Date: 20th September, 2017 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has commended the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, for the rigorous work it has embarked upon in the investigation and review of ownership of several choice property dotting the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, and especially in Abuja and has urged the commission to […]
06 September, 2017 Akure, Nigeria….Ahead of the Second Niger Delta Council beginning today in Akure, the Ondo State capital, a coalition of Civil Society Organisations in the Niger Delta has called on the Council of Niger Delta to ensure greater openness, transparency and accountability of Niger Delta Institutions (NDIs). In a press release issued by the coalition and signed […]
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 […]