25th June, 2016. Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for steps taken to improve transparency, accountability and effectiveness of the commission. This followed the recent release of the commission’s first quarter report for 2016 which has also been made available to the public through NDDC […]
June 20, 2016 Press Release BENIN CITY— Amidst the controversy generated by the letter submitted to the leadership of the House of Representatives by the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwisle against three members of the House Hons. Samuel Ikon, Mohammed Gololo, and Mark Gbillah for their alleged “act of soliciting for prostitutes, misconduct and attempted rape while […]
2nd June, 2016 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed dismay over the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to personally visit Rivers State to flag-off the clean-up of Ogoniland, an area suffering from environmental degradation from oil spills. The expression of frustration was contained in a statement issued in Benin and endorsed […]
June 1, 2016 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to do everything within his power to ensure that the Niger Delta is not reduced to a state of anarchy and turmoil leading to unmitigated disaster for the rest of Nigeria. The call was made following a press statement […]
24 May, 2016 PRESS RELEASE Benin City (Nigeria)— The Managements of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Total, Mobil, Shell and other companies mentioned by the 2013 audit of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) to have refused to transmit revenues totaling over $4.4bn have been called upon to remit all monies ascribed to them into the federation account […]
12th May, 2016. ANEEJ Press statement BENIN CITY, NIGERIA—- A leading Nigerian anti-corruption Watchdog, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has applauded the ambitious resolve of the International Community’s commitments to expose, punish and drive corruption out of the global community. In its reaction to the communiqué issued by world leaders at the end of the anti-corruption […]
Press Release 10th May, 2016 Benin City, Nigeria: The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, wants the Regional Security meeting between French President Francois Hollande and Mr. Muhammadu Buhari to work hard at strengthening financial systems in the West African Sub-region so as to forestall terrorists from exploiting weak anti-money laundering and Terrorist Financing systems prevalent in the […]
Press Release Benin City, Edo State…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, is dissatisfied with the recent attempts being made by the Senate to amend the Act establishing the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, apparently to guarantee the independence and neutrality of the CCT. As things stand today, both the Code of Conduct Bureau and its tribunal are […]
Press Release 6th April, 2016 Benin City, Edo State. Following the global outrage that have trailed the startling revelations in the Panama Papers of financial corruption around the globe, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) an anti-corruption watchdog has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to immediately order the investigation of all Nigerians implicated in the […]
Press Release March 1, 2016 Benin City, Edo State…In the wake of recent reports that a South African telecoms provider, MTN, has paid N50billion to the Federal Government of Nigeria as an initial step to resolve the impasse generated from its disobedience to a directive by Nigerian telecoms regulatory body, the NCC, the Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, […]