This year when the inaugural global forum for asset recovery will take place in Washington DC, in December the attention of the world will focus on four countries – Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and Tunisia. I am not really sure why the focus will be on those other three other countries but I have a pretty faint idea why […]
CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT AT THE END OF THE 3RD NIGER DELTA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT FORUM (NDCEF 2017) ON 13TH NOVEMBER, 2017 The 3rd Niger Delta Civic Engagement Forum (NDCEF 2017) organized by Strengthening Advocacy and Citizen Engagement (SACE), a governance project funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Partnership Initiatives for the Niger Delta (PIND), was held on […]
VACANCIES Accountant, Programmes Officer (Legal), Monitoring And Evaluation Officer The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a Non-Government and non-profit organization based in Benin City, Edo State with Advocacy Office in Abuja seeks to strengthen our management team by engaging the services of an Accountant, a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer as well as a Programme Officer (Legal). All […]
Background Key to the objective of the ANEEJ-SERAP pre-GFAR Consultative Summit in Abuja, 26th October, 2017 is the need to develop an enduring asset recovery framework for Nigeria with a harmonised message to the inaugural GFAR summit in Washington DC in December, 2017. To build on this, ANEEJ has attended a Development and Investment in Africa: Strategy and Advocacy Workshop at […]
Background BEING THE UK HIGH COMMISSIONER’S OPENING REMARKS PRE-GLOBAL FORUM ON ASSET RECOVERY, ABUJA, 26 OCTOBER 2017 I am extremely pleased to join national and international partners here today for this pre-GFAR consultative meeting, in the lead up to the main event in Washington in December. Thank you for inviting me to make these brief opening remarks. As some of […]
Background: Consequent upon request from Olga Amestitova, Rule-of-Law Expert for the EU and GIZ, ANEEJ executive director the Rev David Ugolor has submitted his bio preparatory to his speech at the UN CoSP 7 side event. Official side events are a platform for admitted observer organizations, which have limited speaking opportunities in the formal negotiations, to engage with Parties and other […]
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 […]