BY LEO ATAKPU[1] Staff of ANEEJ at the Remote Working Meeting “The COVID 19 pandemic has thrown up new challenges, new ways of thinking, new ways of doing business and we have to think creatively to up our game. Traditional ways of doing things can no longer be relied upon. We must innovate, we must change our approaches of doing […]
In December 2017, a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) legally binding tripartite agreement was signed in Washington, D.C, between the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Federal Council of Swiss Confederation (Swiss Government) and the World Bank to repatriate $322.5M Abacha Loot to her country of origin (Nigeria). Below is the link to Abacha II Agreement http://www.aneej.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Abacha_Repatriation-Asset_Agreement_among_Nigeria_World_Bank_signed_in_2017_.pdf Again, in February […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 4, 2020…. The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ and all its partners on the Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Management of Returned Assets (MANTRA) project being supported by DFID Nigeria under its Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme have welcomed the successful repatriation of $311,797,866 of the Abacha III Loot to Nigeria. Executive […]
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) HIGHLIGHTS • On the 28th of April 2020, 195 new confirmed cases and four deaths were recorded in Nigeria• One new state (Nasarawa) has reported a case in the last 24 hours.• Till date, 1532 cases have been confirmed, 255 cases have been discharged and 44 deaths have been recorded in 33 states and the Federal Capital Territory• […]
On behalf of the Board, Management and Staff of the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ) as all partners of the Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Management of Recovered Assets ( MANTRA) project in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria, a sub-sect of the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme of DFID Nigeria, I wish to express our […]
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) HIGHLIGHTS • On the 23rd of April 2020, 108 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria • Till date, 981 cases have been confirmed, 197 cases have been discharged and thirty one deaths have been recorded in Nigeria • The 108 new cases are reported from eight states- Lagos (78), FCT (14), Ogun (5), Gombe (4), Borno (3), Akwa Ibom […]
I sometimes feel many people working in International Development are ignorant when it comes to assessing what success looks like in Anti-Corruption interventions. This is understandable, as the challenge of tackling corruption may seem insurmountable in contexts where governance remains poor; systems are broken, and society largely conditioned to think that nothing can be done to stop public funds being […]
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. April 23, 2020…. Seven hundred and three thousand, five hundred and six (703,506) poor and vulnerable Nigerians out of an enrolled figure of 834,948 targeted in the Nigerian Social register received a total of ₦23,742,580,000 from the recovered $322.5million Abacha Loot returned from Switzerland as at 31 December 2019 under the Conditional Cash Transfer of Nigeria’s Social […]
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) HIGHLIGHTS • On the 21st of April 2020, 117 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Nigeria • Till date, 782 cases have been confirmed, 197 cases have been discharged and twenty-five deaths have been recorded in Nigeria • The 117 new cases are reported from eight states- Lagos (59), FCT (29), Kano (14), Borno (6), Katsina (4), Ogun (3), Rivers […]
The National Social Register (NSR) is a database of poor and vulnerable households in Nigeria. The register is built using a combination of three targeting mechanisms: Geographic Targeting, Community Based Targeting and Proxy Means Test Click link below to see full details: http://www.aneej.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NSR-Infographics-_Dark.pdf Source: NASSCO Office