#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussions for June 24th to June 28th
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 Idris Ozovohe Muraina; Executive Director, Lift Up Care Foundation (LUCAF) Fred Ademu; Legal Practitioner, KJogi state #KogiDecides2019; Issue Based Campaign Abeokuta Sweet […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussions for June 17th to June 21st
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 Eunice Emmanuel Bagi; Coordinator YALI Umar DanAsabe Muhammed; Executive Director of Hands across Africa Initiative RSVP Selecting Credible candidate Abeokuta Sweet […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussions for June 10th to June 14th
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 Barrister Fred Ademu; Legal Practioner Abayomi Adewole; Executive Director Paragon Yayo World wide Hon. Rhema Emmanuel; Chairman YPP […]
BILLS BUHARI REFUSED TO ASSENT (2015-2019)
President Buhari has rejected Over 30 Bills between 2015 and 2019. Some of these Bills were rejected for a variety of reasons e.g. they were duplicating the roles of existing agencies, or they were rent-seeking in nature and poorly worded. Adversary politics that we see in government today has led the process of drafting a […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussion May 13th and May 18th
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, the executive Director of INGRA; Initiative for Grassroot Advancement. OOTC:KogiDecides2019: what you need to know. Abeokuta Sweet 107.1FM Tuesdays @11am […]
Democracy as Warfare
From a rather random discussion on how politicians treat opposition party members, we tried to narrate stories in our native tongues using the word “opposition” in as friendly a term as possible but we all ran into the same brick wall: first, what exactly is opposition in our native language? It all seemed, for most, […]
Pandemic issues…
In Nigeria, over 80% of people working do not like their work because they are aging daily but still unfulfilled. In Nigeria, we record an increase in primary/secondary dropouts every year because the teaching-learning process is not fun anymore. In Nigeria, most first class graduates do not mind serving third class/pass graduates and university dropouts […]
The inner thought of the Nigerian Youths….
I love my country Nigeria, but I am losing my pride as a Nigerian. I was born in Nigeria but am not always happy that I grew up in Nigeria. Truly, Nigeria is the only country I can call mine, but I have always wished I had the opportunity to choose another country to be […]
#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 […]
#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 […]