EITI Mission Lauds NEITI, Urges Nigeria to Sustain Transparency Reforms

BY NSE ANTHONY-UKO AND MIRACLE MODILI, Abuja
The global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has lauded the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) for improvements in its disclosure practices, even as it urged the country to sustain the momentum by institutionalising systematic, real-time transparency in its extractive sector.
This was contained in a statement issued at the weekend by NEITI’s director, Communications & Stakeholders Management, Obiageli Onuorah, who confirmed the outcome of the mission’s debriefing session with the agency’s senior management team at the close of a five-day in-country Validation Mission, part of Nigeria’s ongoing ...