Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

NIGERIA EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE (NEITI)
THE PRESIDENCY, ABUJA

President Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR inaugurated a Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Working Group (NSWG) in February 2004.

This was in response to the poor public (local and international) perception of systems and procedures for the generation, allocation, accounting and management of revenues derived from minerals extraction.

The NSWG seeks to address this situation through measures that can improve the capacity of Civil Society Organizations to constructively engage Governments at all levels (Federal, State and Local) in the demand for accountability as well as ask the right questions of the Extractive Industries.

A two-day workshop (Road Show) is therefore planned for the 11 th and 12 th of April 2006 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja, FCT.

The NORTH CENTRAL zone Members of the following civil society organizations have therefore been invited to participate at the fourth of six Road Shows that commenced with the South-South zone:

National Council for Women's Societies (3)
Nigeria Labour Congress (3)
National Association of Nigerian Students (3)
National Association of Professional Bodies (16)
1. Association of Advertising Practitioners of Nigeria
2. Association of Universities Vice Chancellors
3. Chartered Institute of Bankers
4. Nigerian Medical Association
5. Petroleum Dealers Association of Nigeria
6. Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria
7. Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers
8. Computer association of Nigeria
9. Nigeria Institute of Architects
10. Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria
11. Nigeria Insurance Association
12. Nigerian Institute of Public Relations
13. The Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of Nigeria
14. The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria
15. The Nigerian institute of Quantity Surveyors
16. Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria
Academic & Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (6)
Nigerian Society of Engineers (3)
Nigerian Bar Association (3)
Publish What You Pay Coalition (6)
National Union of Pet. & Natural Gas Workers (2)
Pet. & Nat. Gas Senior Staff Ass. Of Nigeria (2)
Christian Association of Nigeria (3)
Muslim Groups (3)
National Union of Teachers (3)
Nigerian Television Authority (6)
Radio stations (8)
Other TV stations (7)
Print Media (18)
State Governors (6)
State Speakers (6)
Heads of service of states (6)
State Council of Traditional Rulers (6)
National Union of Road Transport Workers (3)
Market Women's Unions (6)
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (3)
South-West Chambers of Commerce (6)
Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (1)
Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (1)
Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (1)
Senior Staff Association & Nigerian Universities (1)
Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (2)
Nigeria Economic Summit Group (2)
NSWG/ Civil Society Steering Committee (16)