Open Letter to Mr. President by Chief Ayo Adebanjo
Open Letter to Mr. President The Insanities On The Plateau: The Buck Stops With You. By Chief Ayo Adebanjo The unrelenting massacre of Nigerians in the Middle-Belt States, particularly the most recent that took place on 23rd to 25th December 2023, has shown without any doubt that the government and security forces have […]
Driving Active Citizenship: Reflections on CIMUN’s Opportunity
Driving Active Citizenship: Reflections on CIMUN’s Opportunity Fair at the 4th Session Greetings, everyone! We know you’ve been […]
#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 […]
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 […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussions for October 29- November 3, 2018
The office of the citizen radio program held across 18 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 Rasak Mohammed of Tracka discussed the 2018 constituency projects implementation. Abeokuta Sweet 107.1FM Tuesdays @11am Morounkeji Tairu and Adenike Tadese of INEC discussed […]
#OfficeOfTheCitizen Discussions for October 1-6, 2018
The office of the citizen radio program held across 18 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 Executive Director, Hands Across Africa Initiative, Umar Dan Asabe and Gift Omoniwa of PIBCID discussed the OpenNASS campaign. Abeokuta Sweet 107.1FM Tuesdays […]
#MainaGate and Buhari’s Faulty Cabinet
The anti-corruption campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari suffered a huge blow recently with the sudden appearance of a Former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team (PRTT) who is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for his alleged complicity in the over N2billion Pension Biometric Scam. Abdulrasheed Maina, before his appointment as Chair […]
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. […]
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 […]