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...
Sahara Reporters Media Foundation’s Civic Media Lab displaced other newsrooms from around Africa to win the Global Editors’ Network Editors Lab Hackathon organized by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation at the recently held event in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The team led by Oluwaseun Akinfolarin developed a prototype...
As Nigerians gear up for the 2019 elections, the Centre for Civic, Citizen’s Welfare and Community Development (CCWD) and Civic Media Lab have developed an election monitoring mobile application named Zabe. The app, according to the organisations, seeks to democratise the elections observation process and create...
Civic Media Lab in collaboration with KHASH.ng has launched a mobile application, ZABE, to monitor elections in Nigeria. The app would be effective from the 2018 Osun State gubernatorial elections. Zabe, according to the groups, is a web-based solution that can be used to collect data sent...