#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 […]
#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 […]
Political Participation in Nigeria: The Role of the Citizens
The Nigerian scenario is that of political infighting, public displays of disaffection, the convoluted partnerships with each stakeholder involved as a result of self-interest. This, in turn, presents itself in the existence of a certain control group(s) involved in the devolution of resources in the economy. The military rule post-independence, and the subsequent rule of […]
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 […]
#NotTooYoungToRun Bill: The Renewed Hope and Future of Nigerian Youths – Adebowale Adeniyi
“Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.” – Ban Ki-moon, United Nations’ Secretary-General on International Youth Day, 12 August 2010. It was a renewed hope […]
#NotTooYoungToRun: The Fetishization of “Youth” – Jude Feranmi
This piece is long overdue but then, they say Better Late Than Never. My objective is simple and it is to address the notion which I personally consider a slander that there is a certain fetishization of ‘Youth’ and the capabilities of young people when it comes to nation building or Leadership. I have written […]