Honorary Award
For ages, issues of transparency have dogged Nigeria’s extractive industry. The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) was set up in 2004 to ensure due process, transparency and accountability in payments by the companies and revenue receipts by the federal government. Waziri Onibiyo Adebowale Adio first joined NEITI in 2007. He was appointed the Executive […]
In promoting transparency and accountability in government and for a life dedicated to the empowerment of the Nigerian child with an unstinting commitment to the values of good governance, justice and equity, this year’s Anti-Corruption Defender Award is given to Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili. At a time when she could have kept quiet and lobbied for
The Public and Private Development Centre, PPDC, is a rare and effective definition of watchdog activism in the broad and expansive Nigerian civic space. Its challenging location in the governance framework of our country’s political and policy setting is that exerting midriff of civic oversight. From that spot, PPDC nudges the state to actualise its
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Professor Attahiru Jega was a well-deserving recipient of the coveted 2015 Anticorruption Defender Award. He was celebrated for his firm stands in the face of an evidently intimidating pressure, to manage the electoral process and provide exemplary leadership that gave us the honour of a credible, free and fair 2015 elections, and signalled the pathway
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) was awarded the 2014 Anti-corruption Defender Award of the 9th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting for a stern stance for human rights that transverses Nigeria and indeed Africa, and for making substantive, the full implications of human rights as a tool of remaking communities, and for uplifting
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Dr. Chidi Odinkalu was recipient of the 2013 Anti-corruption Defender Award and was honoured for his integrity, hardwork, unconcealed crusade for the enthronement of human rights – even at the risk of his career; and his dogged stance against corruption. Academic, author, human rights activist and currently Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Dr.
Mallam Balarabe Musa was chosen for the 2012 Award for his consistent record over the years of standing up against corruption including as a former governor of Kaduna State, and for his leadership, courage and shining example to future generations of politicians and leaders; also in recognition of his incorruptibility, unquestionable integrity, and longstanding uncompromising
Justice Kayode Eso once said: “Woe unto corrupt judges. I am not happy to have a corrupt bench. It is a deadly thing.” Honourable Justice Samuel Kayode Eso (CON) is a living legend. He was judge at the Supreme Court in Nigeria until 1990, where he stood up against corruption and since retirement has continued
Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi, popularly known as ‘GANI’ was born on 22 April, 1938. The Gani Fawehinmi Law Chamber (founded by him) was a breeding ground for brilliant legal practitioners. Through Gani’s penchant for hard work, his Chambers grew to become one of the biggest in Nigeria, and indeed in the British Commonwealth. By 2009, the
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu’s honour is a statement of reverence for his courage and commitment to the fight against corruption in Nigerian, despite obvious risks. Ribadu, was born November 11, 1960. He joined the Nigeria Police as a lawyer in 1984 and rose to become head of the Legal and Prosecution department, Police Headquarters, Abuja. His
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