'Riet: Global EITI worried over vacant NEITI board', 3 Nov 2015: The federal government’s continued delay in constituting a fresh National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG) for the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has increasingly become a source of worry for the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), one of its high profile members, Marinke Van Riet has disclosed. Riet…the international coordinator of Publish What You Pay (PWYP)…[a] member of the EITI, explained…that…Nigeria stands the risk of losing its validation…and…leadership role amongst other EITI implementing countries…The government…in June disbanded the boards of all its agencies, which also affected the NSWG of NEITI…“…Nigeria is a very important country for the EITI, so what is happening today may have adverse implications for the EITI globally,” Riet said…