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 […]
Chude Jideonwo: Dear President Buhari, You Have Broken Our Hearts
Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s history to win the presidency from an opposition party. I was far away, in Lagos; but I had a cherished privilege: to be the one to publish the very […]
Chude Jideonwo: Office of the Citizen – Don’t be Annoyed o, but Please, Who Spoilt Nigeria?
There is something curious that you might have noticed. Something as strange as it is weird. And it should worry you. We don’t appear to know who ‘spoilt’ Nigeria. ‘Spoilt’ of course is the colloquial shorthand for all that ails our nation – corruption, poor leadership, stillbirth policy, diving quality of life, and gaping income […]
Chude Jideonwo: Office Of The Citizen – Why You Must Ignore Those Who Say Protests Don’t Work In Nigeria
“I was really hopeful about the February 2face protests,” a friend of mine told me over lunch just recently. “And terribly disappointed when he chickened out. It was the one protest I decided I would go out for.” Then she added the clincher: “Because for me I don’t think protests in Nigeria are effective, and […]
Chude Jideonwo: NO – You DON’T Get To Give Up On Nigeria
I would be dishonest if I said I didn’t expect that my last piece to have some effect, but I certainly didn’t anticipate the intensity of the connection; people who felt exactly the same way, who thought someone had reached deep into their hearts and retrieved their anger, and their disappointment, and their sadness. It […]
Chude Jideonwo: Dear President Buhari, You Have Broken Our Hearts
Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s history to win the presidency from an opposition party. I was far away, in Lagos; but I had a cherished privilege: to be the one to publish the […]
Chude Jideonwo: Office Of The Citizen – If We Want To Change Our Country, We Have 15 Lessons To Learn From BBOG (1)
You know the tragedy already. The world does. And it’s one we have yet to recover from: 276 Chibok girls kidnapped from their schools under the watch of a functioning Nigerian government, and just under 200 of them yet to be recovered as we speak. Now, this is the point at which many of us […]
Yemi Adamolekun: The Long Road Ahead For The Office Of The Citizen
The Office of the Citizen is the highest office in the land but it currently doesn’t come with a salary and it’s definitely lacking in pomp and pageantry. From the initially scheduled date of February 14, we hope to finally have all results from the 2015 general elections this week of April 26. Two […]
Ten Things We Learnt From The 2017 National Assembly Budget – BudgIT & EiENigeria
It’s over! The era of secrecy surrounding the details of budgetary allocations to the National Assembly is now well and truly over. The four-year-old advocacy for accountability in the spending of the legislature finally climaxed last week with the release of the National Assembly’s budget breakdown. As you might expect, there are a few interesting […]
Chibok and the Mirror in our Faces: Some Reflections on Gender in our Society – Muhammad Sanuasi II, CON Sarkin Kano
[Being Text of Speech given at the 1st Chibok Girls Annual Lecture, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, Nigeria, April 14, 2017] BY HIS HIGHNESS MUHAMMAD SANUSI II, CON SARKIN KANO In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent the Merciful. It is a great honor for me to have been invited to speak on this landmark occasion of […]