CONTEXT Over the last week or so, there has been heightened interest amongst Nigerians about the use of the most recently repatriated $322.5 million Abacha loot. The questions raised around the issue include the choice of using the money for the conditional cash transfer programme of the Federal Government, the fairness of the choice of states benefitting from the programme, […]
The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has held a CSO Dialogue on Asset Recovery in Abuja, Nigeria, 27th June, 2018. The purpose of the CSO Dialogue on Asset Recovery included raising of awareness of the public on the outcome of GFAR, to reach a common understanding common understanding on how Nigeria can take the commitments made at GFAR forward […]
Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, CAO collaborated with the IFC Country Office in Nigeria and several leading Nigerian civil society organizations (CSOs) to host an outreach event in Lagos and Abuja on May 17, 2018. The purpose of the meeting—which took place in-person and via videoconference from Washington DC—was to raise awareness about CAO’s role as IFC’s independent accountability mechanism, improve understanding […]
18th June, 2018 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has said that the announcement by the UK government to a review of the legal requirements related to the publication of revenue from extractive industries and paid to governments across the world, is a stitch in time which will save Nigeria nine. The Rev […]
June 14, 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has said that the new deal which Nigeria recently struck with the UK, US and France to repatriate $500million of yet another stash of Abacha loot is a welcome development which would open up the need for an asset monitoring framework. In a statement released […]
June 13, 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…Against the backdrop of the conviction of another former governor in the country by the court for corruption, this time, former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has hailed the 14-year jail sentence slapped on the former governor for diverting N1.162 billion state ecological funds […]
7th June, 2018 Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has said that the plan to exclude the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, from being subject to the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility and the Procurement Acts is unacceptable as it will defeat the primary purpose for a call on reforms in the oil and gas […]
Background: At the Global Forum for Asset Recovery, GFAR, event in Washington, DC, December 2-4 2017, there were strong suggestions that for the asset recovery campaign to garner interest and momentum, creating a global platform for CSO work on asset recovery and kleptocracy would be useful, and that holding some form of event for CSOs on Asset Recovery during 2018 […]
31st May, 2018. Benin City, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has hailed the decision of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory to send a former governor of Taraba State, Rev. Jolly Nyame to a jail term of 14 years for stealing public monies to the tune of N1.64 billion. Commending the court decision […]
BACKGROUND TO MANTRA PROJECT 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 politically exposed persons, multinational corporations, the business elite and civil servants with complicity of banking and property industries in Europe, North America and elsewhere. […]