November 9, 2015 PRESS RELEASE Benin City…..The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently reconstitute the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC, just as it urges the Federal Government to increase budgetary allocation to agencies set up to develop the Niger Delta region. Executive Director of ANEEJ, Rev David […]
October, 19th 2015, Benin City…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has received the news of the abduction of Dr. Philip Ugbodaga, former chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, at a medical outreach in Imo State with shock and disbelief. ANEEJ notes that incidences of abduction and kidnap of prominent and well-meaning […]
Abuja, Nigeria, 29th July 2015…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, is happy with the appointment of a new boss for the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme, Retired Brigadier General Paul T. Boroh, as the government of President Buhari seeks to address the frustrations and mismanagement bedeviling the Amnesty programme. “We have confidence in the choice of a non-political […]
After an inter-agency consultative Committee of Election Security meeting held on Monday the 23rd of February with a team from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), the military and para-military organisations on the level of their preparedness for the General Elections, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega has once again reiterated the inability of […]
23rd January, 2015. The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), has condemned the Call made by the National Security Adviser to the president, Col. Sambo Dasuki at the Chatam House in Londonfor the postponement by three months of the February General Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission to postpone the General elections. “We applaud INEC for insisting […]
The United Kingdom yesterday commenced the enforcement of the “Reports on Payments to Governments Regulations 2014” which was signed into law by Business Minister Jo Swinson MP on 28 November, 2014. The regulation provides for anti-corruption provisions for the oil, gas, mining and logging sectors as contained in Chapter 10 of the 2013 European Union Accounting Directive. “As a leading […]
October 31, 2014 URGENT MEDIA RELEASE ANEEJ CALLS FOR ABOLISION OF CRUDE OIL SWAPS The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called on the Federal Government to abolish crude oil swaps without any further delay. ANEEJ in an advocacy position paper to the House of Representative Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) over the on-going inquiry on massive corruption […]
MEDIA ADVISORY Guests at Spokesperson’s Noon Briefing on Friday to focus on financing the post-2015 development agenda In its report, the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing found that the financing needs for sustainable development were in the trillions of dollars per year. Annual global savings, at $USD 22 trillion, are sufficient to meet these needs, but current […]
25 August, 2014. For Immediate Release Benin City….. The United States government according to latest Wall Street Journal (WSJ) launched investigation into crude oil shipments from Saltpond platform, a small oil facility off the coast of Ghana, due to strong suspicion that some of Nigeria’s stolen oil may be exported through the facility. The platform, it was learnt, has been […]