BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. April 19, 2021… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has flayed the arrest and detention of the Chairman of the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), Mr. Olanrewaju Suraj by the Nigeria Police over his alleged role in ensuring that perpetrators of Malabu oil deal which fleeced the nation of over $1.1bn were made […]
BACKGROUND Efforts to address corruption has been a central theme of successive governments in Nigeria, especially since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999. At the presidential poll in 2015, the fight against corruption became the one of the two key campaign messages on which President Muhammadu Buhari was elected to office. Since then, several measures have been taken […]
… Launches ANEEJ’s Social Protection Project ABUJA, NIGERIA. March 23, 2021… The Honourable Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba has assured that the ongoing review of the expired Social Protection Policy (2021-2025) would be ready in June 2021. The minister gave the assurance while declaring open, the inception meeting of the Enhancing Social Protection Programme in […]
……Calls for disclosure of seized, returned amount BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. March 9, 2021… Asset Recovery and Management Watchdog, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called on the United Kingdom and Nigerian Governments to review the recently signed annex to the 2016 MoU on £4.2million Chief James Onanefe Ibori assets for its return to Delta State, just […]
BY SANDRA EGUAGIE International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated annually on March 8, it is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity, raise awareness about women’s equality, lobby for accelerated gender parity and fundraise for female focused charities. The IWD 2021 […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. March 3, 2021… Seventy-nine (79) Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government (MDAs) have failed to comply with SGF’s directive on the Use of Nigeria Open Contracting Portal (NOCOPO) as directed by the Secretary-General of the Federation’s (SGF’S) circulars Ref. No PROC/BPP/045/I/89 and Ref.No.59780/S.5/C.2/11/6 issued in 2018, scoring between 0 – 7.99 points, the Africa Network […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. February 25, 2021… ActionAid Nigeria has lauded the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) for its pioneering role in civil society activism working on several issues ranging from corruption, asset recovery, transparency and accountability, environment and human trafficking. Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria, Ms. Ene Obi gave the commendation when she led a high-level visit […]
Benin City, Nigeria. February 25, 2021… Anti-Corruption Watchdog and leading Civil Society Organisation working on anti-corruption issues in Nigeria, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has charged the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa to effectively deploy Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and preventive measures in tackling corruption in the […]
BENIN CITY. February 18, 2021… The African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji as the new Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), saying his appointment will boost ongoing reforms in the Oil and Gas sector of the nation’s economy. Executive Director of ANEEJ, the […]
Introduction Poverty has become a major development problem in Nigeria. The World Poverty Clock report released in 2018 shows Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the most extreme poor people in the world. The struggle to lift more citizens out of extreme poverty is an indictment on successive Nigerian governments which have mismanaged the country’s vast oil resources […]