Year: 2020

NGOs Identify Several Communities in FCT Yet to Benefits from FG’s Palliative

BY GLORIA USMAN, ABUJA – Upon the extension of lockdown by the Federal Government for additional period of 14 days, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has identified 19 extremely poor communities across FCT that are yet to benefit from the palliative scheme. At the moment, CITAD in collaboration with ActionAid Nigeria are currently […]

Lockdown: CITAD advises Kano govt on stricter measures

The Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD, on Sunday advised Kano state government to introduce stricter measures, to ensure compliance with the restriction order, to curtail the spread of coronavirus, #COVID19 in the state. The advise is coming, especially following one confirmed case of the virus, announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, […]

Exposing the Identity of COVID-19 Victims is Counterproductive – CITAD

The propriety or otherwise of exposing the identity of COVID-19 infected or potentially infected persons which has become a big controversy in Benue State three weeks ago in the case of Mrs Susan Okpeh has received a curt rejection in a similar case in Kano in Northwestern Nigeria. The case in Kano is the circulation […]

Death baiting

Email: ochima495@gmail.com SMS: 08055001912 I have just read a situation report on “how people in Kano are responding to government directives against COVID-19” released by the Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD, Kano, April 7. Before I go into the report, let me confess that I am not familiar with the organisation. I am knowing […]

Press Release by the Centre for Information Technology and Development on Recent Confirmed COVID-19 Case in Kano

As the number of confirmed cases increases day by day in the country, states started taking precautionary measures to stop it from spreading into their states where there is no confirmed case.  Kano state on the 23rd of March closed all its borders with other states, denied people entry and exit in and out of […]

Report of CITAD Fourth Twitter Chat with Doctor Lawal Hassan Mohammed

It has been said that since the outbreak of Spanish Fluids, world has never seen a threat to human existence similar to this. World over is in lockdown, millions of people have been tested positive for the virus, thousands of people have lost their lives, many businesses have been crashed and countries are on the […]

A Situation Report on the Assessment of How People in Kano are Responding to Government’s Directives against Covid19

Prepared by Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), Kano Issued: 7th April, 2020 Nigeria recorded it first case of Corona Virus on 27 February, 2020 in Lagos State. As the number of confirmed cases increases day by day, several States in Nigeria took different drastic measures to respond to the pandemic, including states where […]

Report of CITAD Third Twitter Chat on COVID-19 with Pharmacist Usman Nasir

In its effort to combat the widespread of Corona Virus pandemic in Nigeria, and as an organization that has as its mandate the use of ICTs to empower citizens for a just and knowledge based society that is anchored on balanced and sustainable development, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) held its third […]

CITAD Uncovers Minimal Compliance With Coronavirus Rules in Kano

A survey of the most strategic points of convergence in urban Kano has shown very minimal compliance with the ground rules against COVID-19. The survey by Kano based Centre for Information Technology and Development, (CITAD) shows that most strategic mosques, markets, streets and makeshift soccer pitches are in full swing. The borders are no less. […]

Deconstructing the CITAD – NCDC Conversation on COVID-19 in Nigeria

How much of a problem this still is remains to be systematically ascertained but it was the biggest part of the COVID-19 crisis in Nigeria. Whom or where do the ordinary Nigerians, especially those in the slums or “the voices from below” call to say they think they might be confronting Coronavirus? A Bauchi State […]