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...
House of Representative Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for Kosofe Federal Constituency, Olayiwola Abisoye has scored INEC low in the conduct of the 2019 General Elections. He stated this during the second episode of the Civic Media Lab Election Debrief. He further decried the...
As the dust raised by the 2019 Election settles, Civic Media Lab hosts election debrief programme. The first episode had Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour, the PDP Senatorial Candidate for Lagos West, Abiodun Thorpe, Director, Data Analytics and Election Monitoring for the African Action Congress and Femi Owolabi,...
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...
This is the story of 29 year old Tope Adeyemi, a bass guitarist and music teacher. He was wrongfully accused of robbery, badly tortured and detained for three months. Watch full video here: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwzzRCU5t0E[/embed]...