ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. December 17, 2019…. The use of recovered assets for the realization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) comes under sharp focus at a panel billed to hold on Thursday 19 December, 2019 at the ongoing Eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption holding at Abu Dhabi, United Arabs Emirates. […]
Abuja, Nigeria. December 9, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) calls on all stakeholders including government, civil society, development partners and citizens to be united in supporting the use of recovered assets in Nigeria to fund social investment programmes and other pro-poor initiatives. As we mark World Anticorruption Day 2019, it is important to take stock […]
Paris, France. November 28, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ a Benin City, Nigeria Civil Society Organisation has said the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme is an important model of Aid and development effectiveness which is capable of changing numerous development challenges buffeting Africa if replicated by other OECD-DAC countries. Deputy Executive Director of ANEEJ, Mr. […]
Benin City, Nigeria. November 4, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice ANEEJ is set to engage internationally acclaimed asset Recovery expert in Benin City Edo state, Aaron Bornstein, formerly Executive director of the BOTA Foundation of Kazakhstan, to examine Civil Society role in recalibrating returned assets to alleviate poverty. Mr. Bornstein, an anti-corruption consultant for the World […]
Benin City, Nigeria. October 1, 2019…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has thrown its weight behind a call from the Edo State Government for a forensic probe of the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, owing to shoddy, incomplete, abandoned and substandard projects executed by the NDDC in the past six months. ANEEJ Executive Director, the Rev David […]
Benin city, Nigeria. September 19, 2019…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has applauded the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Office of the National Social Investment Programme, NSIO, for bold steps at stamping out sharp practices in the disbursement of the $322.5million Abacha loot currently being disbursed to Nigerians under the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme. The Rev David […]
Benin City, Nigeria. September 3, 2019…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has called on the Muhammadu Buhari administration to constitute a crack team to apprehend and prosecute perpetrators of crude oil theft and pipeline vandals so as to plug the culture of waste and impunity in the country. ANEEJ Executive Director, Rev David Ugolor who made the call on the […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. September 2, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has concluded its inaugural mentorship and training of eleven young anti-corruption activists and champions in the Niger Delta, at the ANEEJ Centre for Corruption Studies. In his closing remarks during their graduation, the ANEEJ Acting Executive Director, Mr. Leo Atakpu said the organisation is glad to […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. August 25, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ Centre for Corruption Studies is set to undertake the first round of mentorship and training of young anti-corruption activists and champions in the Niger Delta. A statement issued in Benin City yesterday by ANEEJ and signed by its Acting Executive Director, Mr. Leo Atakpu stated that ‘’the anti-corruption […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA. August 19, 2019… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ and the Lead organization implementing the Transparency and Accountability in the recovery and management of recovered assets (MANTRA) project being supported by the British Department for International Development (DFID) under the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme will be organizing a side event at the Civil Society Forum at this […]