It has been a red January for Nigeria as the beginning of the year 2020 has been filled with deaths which again brings to the fore the level of insecurity and how much premium the government places on the lives of its people. About 200 people...
Civic Media Lab’s Africana Migration project has finished top three at the 2019 Commonwealth Digital Challenge organised by the Thomson Foundation. The Commonwealth digital challenge which is in its second year, is designed for young people in commonwealth countries to create digital innovation and tools that...
Yet again, Nigeria has experienced another violent protest from the now notorious Shiite group in Abuja. These protests have become a mainstay, especially in the nations’ capital ever since Mohammed El –Zakzaky, the Kaduna based leader of the Shiite movement in Nigeria was arrested in...
Currently, the genocide in the English speaking regions of Cameroon has led to the death of about 10,000 people, according to an activist from one of the haunted areas. The Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, has ordered war on Southern Cameroonian secessionist and its people. Since the...
Many years ago, as far back as 1391, there was a riot against a Jewish settlement in Spain. Sentiments were always negative towards the Jews because they were said to be shrewd dealers- that is the context historians gave us. After this riot, the Jewish...
On the latest episode of Election Debrief, we had Presidential candidate of Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party, Tope Kolade Fasua, sharing his experience on the 2019 Elections. He queried the election results from the north among other things. Watch the full video here...
The Civic Media Lab Elections Debrief continues this week with Joshua Adeoye of the African Action Congress (AAC), Hassan Soweto of the Socialist Party of Nigeria and Sanmi Falobi of the International Press Centre. They discussed the fate of smaller parties at the 2019 General Elections, among...
Frontline Media design and Innovation center, Civic Media Lab has launched a portal to help Nigerians put a context to the exorbitant salaries Nigerian senators pay themselves. Despite the fact that 87 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty and unemployment is at record levels, the Nigeria public officials...
Kelechukwu Ogu and Habib Oladapo IN 2017, British writer, Howard Jacobson, sat down with BBC Hard Talk presenter- Stephen Saca. As the discussion got heated, he flew into a rant, ‘They’re not reading, they can’t concentrate, they don’t know the nature of the discourse that they...
In commemorating this year’s World Press Freedom Day; the Civic Media Lab in partnership with RoLAC, an initiative of the European Union, implemented by the British Council organised a dialogue session for members of the press in Nigeria The event held at the Civic Media Lab...