BENIN-CITY, NIGERIA. October 21, 2020…. The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has condemned the killing of EndSARS protesters in Lekki tollgate Tuesday night, as well as the killings in Benin and other parts of the country, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent steps to halt the killings. Executive Director of ANEEJ, the Rev David Ugolor […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. October 20, 2020…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has condemned in strong terms the violence and destructions visited on Edo State by hoodlums who hijacked the peaceful protests of EndSARS campaigners. It also condemned the release of prisoners in all the major prisons in the State. Executive Director of ANEEJ, Rev David Ugolor in […]
International civil society welcomes the recent Memorandum of Understanding signed between Switzerland and Uzbekistan to return USD 131 million of confiscated assets but counsel caution We welcome recent developments by the Swiss government to repatriate $131 million USD of confiscated assets in criminal proceedings against Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of former Uzbek President Islam Karimov. The source of these assets are […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. September 25, 2020… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice and lead organisation implementing the Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Return and Management of Assets (‘MANTRA) project has expressed serious concerns over the exclusion of Civil Society Organisation in the process leading up to the Memorandum of Understanding for the return of €5.5 million between […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. September 18, 2020… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to live up to its promise to conduct a free, fair and transparent Governorship Election in Edo State by providing a level playing field for all candidates, just as they urged all security agencies deployed to Edo […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA. September 18, 2020… The fight against corruption in Nigeria received a major boost yesterday as the Federal Government launched a Central database and the Central Criminal Justice Information system of the Assets Recovery and Management Unit (ARMU), an arm of the Federal Ministry of Justice with support from the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) as […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. August 18, 2020… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a leading Civil Society Organisation working on issues of assets recovery has welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Irish and Nigerian governments for the return of €5.5 million stolen by a former military head of state, General Sani Abacha, urging the […]
Niger Delta. July 29, 2020… We are deeply concerned about recent revelations on the scale of corruption and mismanagement in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). We recall that the NDDC was established in 2000 as one of the first tasks of the new democratic government in Nigeria, and was conceived as a response to the agitations of the people […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. July 29, 2020… The Executive Director of the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev David Ugolor has blamed the rot in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on failure of leadership at the highest level in the country, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to take responsibility and reposition the interventionist agency to deliver development to […]
EKPOMA, NIGERIA. July 13, 2020…. The Chairman, Board of Directors of the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Prof Ben Aigbokhan is dead. The Late Professor of Economics and Immediate Past Vice Chancellor of Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogua, Edo State died on Monday July 6, 2020, from a brief illness, a development that forced the management to close […]