EiE Nigeria’s 5th Volunteers Day
Achieving the goals of any Civil Society Organization requires the ingenuity, selflessness and solidarity of people through voluntary actions. Globally, volunteering has been playing a critical role in various developmental, humanitarian and advocacy strides as well as helping to strengthen the capacity of the existing workforce of CSOs. At Enough is Enough Nigeria, volunteers help […]
A STATUE AND THE INEPTITUDE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE
The tenets of good governance rest on conducting policies, actions, and affairs of people in a beneficial way for the governed. The democratic system of governance also ensures that the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation. Therefore, staying in tune with the […]
Office Of The Citizen With Chude Jideonwo: Political Candidacy Lies Beyond Candidates
Why did supposedly serious-minded Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Paul Ryan support the disturbing candidacy of Donald Trump, a man who stands against the orthodoxy of his Republican Party as much as he is incoherent on ideologies towards small government, the economy and social issues? There are many guesses that can be […]
Office of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: How Do We Recover Urgently – Our Dignity as Nigerians?
Let me tell you about my driver of seven years. The first sign of trouble when he was recommended was the fact that he didn’t have a job at the time. But he came highly recommended and so I asked to meet him. First question I asked him: Why wasn’t he presently employed? He had […]
Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Will The Third Party Candidates Please Stand Up?
Nigerians talk a good game about third party candidacies, especially Nigerians on social media. They speak often about this utopia where Nigerians have had more than two options for president of Nigeria, and we could have chosen any of these options instead of what they consider less-than-ideal alternatives in our last two national election cycles. […]
Office Of The Citizen With Chude Jideonwo: Not Too Young To Run – And So What?
Let’s start from the beginning – I am completely in support of the #NotTooYoungToRun campaign. The campaign is based on a bill before the National Assembly that seeks to alter sections 65, 106, 131, 177 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) – to reduce the age qualification for several […]
Office Of The Citizen With Chude Jideonwo: What Nigerian Billionaires Should Consider Doing With All That Money
Do our billionaires believe in nothing? This question came to me just after I spent the past hour with one of the most striking young people I have met recently. While a good number of young people talk a good game about political participation and youth engagement beyond civil society, he has actually taken the […]
Not Too Young To Run Movement Response to Speaker Dogara
Press Release July 21, 2017 The Not Too Young To Run movement received with pleasure, the statement issued by the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara reaffirming his commitment and that of the House of representatives to the passage of the Not Too Young to Run bill […]
Office of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: The High Standards to Which We Must Hold Our Leaders
I have heard this bit of nonsense constantly – seen it sometimes on social media, in comment boxes or random commentary: that because I actively, enthusiastically and unrepentantly threw personal and professional weight behind the election of a political office holder, I have somehow lost the moral right to speak out against him. Nonsense. As […]
Office of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Today’s Nigerian Dream
Because we run a nation building company that is the continent’s leading expert on elections, we routinely sit in on meetings with politicians who want to be president, who want to explore being president, who want to push forward candidates who should be president, and who just want to brainstorm through what the presidency means […]