Management and Staff of the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, are saddened to learn of the death of Ian Squire, in the Niger Delta. According to reports, Mr Squire, 56, was an optician who had been working with the Christian Health Charity New Foundation, training Niger Deltans to carry out sight tests and dispense prescription glasses. He […]
November 7, 2017 Press Release Benin City, Nigeria… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ and the Edo Women Development Initiative, EWDI, have expressed deep sadness and grief over the deaths of 26 Nigerian girls on the Mediterranean and therefore has called on the National Assembly to as a matter of urgent national importance to constitute a strong […]
Background Civil Society Briefing Session, Sunday 5 November -A Civil Society Briefing Session hosted by the UNCAC Coalition held for all CSOs from 10.30-17.30 at the EURO PLAZA Conference Center. The briefing had sessions including a general briefing on the COSP7 and CSOs role, advocacy strategies and messaging, and a general opportunity to network with other CSOs ahead of the conference. There were […]
6th November 2017 Press Release Vienna, Austria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has urged the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari to provide leadership by demonstrating that all those mentioned in the Panama Papers Leak as well as the recently released Paradise Report will not only be investigated and brought to justice, but their looted assets will be recovered […]
Press Release 5th November, 2017. Abuja, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has expressed dismay and bewilderment at the March 2017 withdrawal of the United States from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, and its recent ratification of November 2017 of that withdrawal from the EITI as an implementing country. In a statement released shortly after the US […]
Background At the ANEEJ-SERAP pre-GFAR Consultative meeting in Abuja 26th October 2017, the Federal government of Nigeria announced that it had recovered $USS85million of the Malabu deal. Other groundbreaking remarks and commitments from the Nigerian Government which the announcement above seemed to overshadow are contained in the speech by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon Abubakar Malami, SAN. […]
Background Being remarks/talking points by Eric Mayoraz, Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, on the occasion of the ANEEJ-SERAP pre-GFAR Consultative Summit at the Reiz Continental Hotel, Abuja, 26th October, 2017, with the theme: Building an enduring framework for Asset Recovery in Nigeria Pre-GFAR Consultative Meeting, Africa Network, Abuja, 26.10.2017 Switzerland is committed to fight against corruption and changed in the last […]
$321m LOOT: FEC APPROVES MOU WITH SWITZERLAND by Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Published November 1, 2017 http://punchng.com/321m-loot-fec-approves-mou-with-switzerland/ The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a Memorandum of Understanding between Nigeria and Switzerland that will lead to the repatriation of $321m stolen fund to the country. The Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), disclosed this to State House correspondents at the […]
Press Release 1 November, 2017. Abuja, Nigeria…The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has applauded the verdict of a French court in confiscating all property linked to Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and son of the President and handing him a suspended three-year prison sentence and a suspended fine of USSD$35million for embezzling over $174million […]
BACKGROUND Anti-corruption stakeholders in Nigeria convened for a Preparatory Consultative Meeting ahead of the Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR) scheduled to hold in Washington DC on December 4-6, 2017. The Pre-GFAR Consultative Meeting, held at Reiz Continental Hotel, Abuja on October 26, 2017, was organized by the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) in partnership with Socio-Economic […]