#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussion April 21st and April 27th
The office of the citizen radio program will hold across 23 states in Nigeria during the week. Below is the summary of topics and guests. City/Station Date/Time Summary Lokoja Prime 101.5FM Tuesdays @9am Halima Sadiq, Senior Program Officer PIBCID; Aminu Okutekpa, Executive Director Voice of Youth Initiative, Kogi State The role of Women and Youth in […]
Looking Beyond the Surface
In life, there are certain scenarios, people and experiences that we encounter that stick with us for life and shape the way we view the world around us. I in my 2+ decades on this earth have encountered a few moments and people like that. But what sparked this blog post, in particular, was a […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussion April 15th and April 20th
The office of the citizen radio program will hold across 23 states in Nigeria during the week. Below is the summary of topics and guests. City/Station Date/Time Summary Lokoja Prime 101.5FM Tuesdays @9am Hamza Aliyu, Executive Director, Initiative for Grassroot Enhancement (NGRA) Human Cost of Corruption & the Need for Good Governance AbeokutaSweet 107.1FM Tuesdays […]
#NigeriaDecides2019: Lessons for the 3rd Force
The presidential elections in Nigeria has come and gone. As a significant majority of the electorate expected, it was a two-party race notwithstanding the fact that there were over 70 registered political parties contesting the presidential elections. The supposed ‘third force’ challenge to the ruling parties was next to non-existent in the larger scheme of […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen Disscussion for April 8th to April 13th
The office of the citizen radio program will hold across 23 states in Nigeria during the week. Below is the summary of topics and guests. City/Station Date/Time Summary LokojaPrime 101.5FM Tuesdays @9am Hamza Aliyu, Executive Director, Initiative for Grassroot Enhancement (NGRA) Human Cost of Corruption & the Need for Good Governance AbeokutaSweet 107.1FM Tuesdays @11am Osiyemi […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussion for April 1st to April 6th
The office of the citizen radio program will hold across 23 states in Nigeria during the week. Below is the summary of topics and guests. City/Station Date/Time Summary LokojaPrime 101.5FM Tuesdays @9am Rasak Mohammed, Tracka Civil Rights & Responsibility: Tracking 2018 Constituency Projects AbeokutaSweet 107.1FM Tuesdays @11am Osiyemi Joshua, BudgIT Update on Tracking 2018 Federal […]
Voters Apathy and its effects on Nigerian society.
According to Iyayi, the third wave of democratization in the 1990’s led to the conduct of elections in many developing nations/countries. To a very large extent, elections and electoral processes shape the face of the bourgeois modern state. Elections provide the medium by which the different interest groups within the bourgeois nation state can take […]