The Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act, 2022, provide for an effective legal and institutional framework for the recovery and management of the proceeds of crime, benefits derived therein, instrumentality of unlawful activities, and unclaimed properties reasonablysuspected to be proceeds of crime. Click to see the Act
INTERVIEW WITH BBC ON THE $23M ABACHA LOOT AGREEMENT Hello and welcome to Newsday with Rana and James. The trail of millions of dollars put away in foreign banks by the Nigerian Former President Sani Abacha. Nigeria has just signed an agreement for another $23M stolen money to be returned by the United States. The money is part of the […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA. August 25, 2022… Leaders of the Lagos Peoples Movement, a grassroots environmental activist behind the Shadow Shell Annual General Meeting in Lagos have called on the Chair of the Church of England Pensions Board, Clive Mather to resign for being a shareholder in Shell and, hence being a stumbling block for divestment of the Church’s £3.5bn fund from […]
BENIN-CITY, NIGERIA. August 24, 2022… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice has welcomed the signing of agreements between the Nigerian and United States Governments to return $23million recovered from the Late General Sani Abacha for the completion of three major infrastructural landmark projects. Executive Director of ANEEJ and Leader of the Monitoring Transparency and Accountability project in the […]
The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) in collaboration with Africa Forum and Initiative for Debt and Development (AFRODAD) organized African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCODD 2022) Nigeria National Conference at the K-Class Hotel,Wuse Zone 5, Abuja on 18 August 2022.The conference is a build up to the AFCoDD 2022 and brought together Government Leaders, Civil Society […]
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY PARTICIPANTS AT A 2- DAY WORKSHOP ON THE USE OF UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST CORUPTION (UNCAC) COALITION GUIDE FOR CSO AND PRIVATE SECTOR IN PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE, FROM 4TH – 5TH AUGUST 2022 Arising from a training session on the use of UNCAC Coalition Guide for CSOs and Private Sector organized by the Africa Network for […]
Oliver Windridge is a British lawyer, specializing in international human rights, anti-corruption and international criminal law. He is particularly interested in exploring where these three elements interconnect. Oliver is founder of rights: applied, a human rights and anti-corruption consultancy that has pioneered the use of “multi-track accountability” solutions.Click to see slide
Corruption is a major problem in Nigeria and is largely responsible for widespread poverty and underdevelopment. According to the UN and the AU, around $148 billion is stolen from Africa annually by political leaders, multinational corporations, the business elite and civil servants with complicity of banking and property industries in Europe, North America and elsewhere. Transparency International (TI), recently ranked […]
Our attention has been drawn to the arrest of one Mr. Abdullazeez Bako, founder of Center for Citizens Right by security agency for allegedly being in possession of yet to be ascertained numbers of E-Wallet payment cards of beneficiaries of the National Cash Transfer Programme in Nasarawa State. The said Mr. Abdullazeez Bako, Director of Centre for Citizens Right, […]
BENIN CITY, Nigeria. August 3, 2022… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a human right organisation has called for the immediate release of a lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Inibehe Effiong, who was sent to prison, Wednesday morning, by the Akwa Ibom State Chief Judge, Justice Ekaette Obot. Executive Director of ANEEJ, the Rev David Ugolor […]