BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. September 18, 2020… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to live up to its promise to conduct a free, fair and transparent Governorship Election in Edo State by providing a level playing field for all candidates, just as they urged all security agencies deployed to Edo […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA. September 18, 2020… The fight against corruption in Nigeria received a major boost yesterday as the Federal Government launched a Central database and the Central Criminal Justice Information system of the Assets Recovery and Management Unit (ARMU), an arm of the Federal Ministry of Justice with support from the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) as […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. August 18, 2020… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a leading Civil Society Organisation working on issues of assets recovery has welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Irish and Nigerian governments for the return of €5.5 million stolen by a former military head of state, General Sani Abacha, urging the […]
Niger Delta. July 29, 2020… We are deeply concerned about recent revelations on the scale of corruption and mismanagement in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). We recall that the NDDC was established in 2000 as one of the first tasks of the new democratic government in Nigeria, and was conceived as a response to the agitations of the people […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. July 29, 2020… The Executive Director of the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev David Ugolor has blamed the rot in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on failure of leadership at the highest level in the country, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to take responsibility and reposition the interventionist agency to deliver development to […]
EKPOMA, NIGERIA. July 13, 2020…. The Chairman, Board of Directors of the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Prof Ben Aigbokhan is dead. The Late Professor of Economics and Immediate Past Vice Chancellor of Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogua, Edo State died on Monday July 6, 2020, from a brief illness, a development that forced the management to close […]
YENAGOA/BENIN-CITY. July 9, 2020… Civil Society Organisations working on the platform of Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Return of Assets (MANTRA) project has called on the Governments of the United States of America to return the Nine hundred thousand Dollars ($900,000) seized from former governor of Bayelsa State, the Late Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha to the people of Bayelsa […]
BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. July 8, 2020… A leading anti-corruption Civil Society Organisation, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has welcomed the suspension of the the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Mr. Ibrahim Magu by President Muhammadu Buhari, but urges that he should be given fair hearing in all allegations levelled against […]
Benin-City, Nigeria. July 2, 2020… The Edo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, and Co-Chair of the Edo State Open Government Partnership (OGP), Prof Yinka Omorogbe has assured stakeholders that the Edo State Action Plan (SAP) developed some months ago will be signed by the Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki soon. Prof Omorogbe gave the assurance while receiving the Executive Director […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. June 18, 2020… A total of Seven Hundred and forty-eight thousand, six hundred and eighty four (748,684) households of poor and vulnerable Nigerians out of an enrolled figure of 755,375 targeted in the Nigerian Social register received a total of ₦13,069,896,000 representing 80 percent of the total N16,337,370,000 from the recovered $322.5million Abacha Loot returned from Switzerland […]