Bauchi group faults last year’s budget implementation
By Patience Ogbodo, Correspondent, Bauchi Bauchi State Coalition for the Improvement of Public Expenditure Management (BACIPEM) says budget implementation in 2012 was poor. The group attributed the poor show to overdependence on the Federation Account allocation. BACIPEM led by the Centre for Information Technology & Development (CITAD) Senior Programme Officer, Kabir Sa’idu Dakata, stated this during
‘Bauchi education ministry gets 26% allocation’
By Patience Ogbodo,  Correspondent, Bauchi Bauchi State Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Mohammed Aminu Ibrahim, says the education subsector in the state has been getting the required 26 percent budgetary allocations under the administration of Governor Isa Yuguda. Ibrahim stated this when he received delegation from the Centre for information Technology and Development (CITAD) during an
Capacity building for media would boost Maternal Accountability in Nigeria –Rafsanjani
By Sylvester Enoghase  –   Lagos Reviewing how the capacity building for media would helped to focus more attention on improving Maternal health accountability, especially the lives of the most vulnerable within the societies the Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani  has declared that targeting investment in skills development
Centre produces film on ICT in Hausa language
The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in Kano State has produced a film in Hausa language on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for children. CITAD Media Officer, Alhaji Sufiyanu Kabo, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Kano. He said the film, entitled: ‘Fasahar Sadarwa Don Yara’, meaning, `ICT for Children’, would enable children
FG establishes 109 ICT community centres nationwide
By Patience Ogbodo, Correspondent, Bauchi The Federal Government is currently building 109 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) community centres, one in each senatorial districts of the country as part of effort to make majority Nigerians ICT-literate. Executive Director, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), a non-governmental organization, Mallam Yunusa Zakari Ya’u who disclosed this said
Bauchi urged to create website for councils
By Patience Ogbodo Correspondent, Bauchi Bauchi State government has been urged to create internet website in all the 20 local government secretariats in the state. The call was made weekend in Bauchi at the end of a four-week computer training organized by a Bauchi-based non-govermental organization, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in collaboration
Group calls for streamlined councils in Bauchi
By Patience Ogbodo Correspondent, Bauchi A Bauchi-based non-governmental organisation, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has called for the streamlining of the composition of the councils established under the Public Procurement and Fiscal Responsibility laws of Bauchi State. The Executive director of CITAD, Mallam Ya’u Zakariya Ya’u, stated this during a press conference at
Trainees told to use skill for societal growth
By Patience Ogbodo,  Correspondent, Bauchi    The Chief of Party RTI/LEAD International, a USAID-sponsored project, Mr. Don Seufert says the partnership between his organisation and Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), a Bauchi-based NGO is to strengthen democratic local governance in Bauchi State. Seufert stated this while speaking at the certificate presentation ceremony
CITAD: Training Bauchi LG staff on ICT (1)
By Patience Ogbodo,  Correspondent, Bauchi The world today is a global village, no little thanks to Information and Communications Technology. The craze to “belong†among those that have it has set nations and peoples hobnobbing even with those they would have used the proverbial long spoon in dining with. And the reason is not far fetched,
‘CITAD, LEAD pact to strengthen governance in Bauchi’
By Patience Ogbodo, Correspondent, Bauchi The Chief of Party RTI/LEAD International, a USAID-sponsored project, Mr. Don Seufert says the partnership between his organisation and Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), a Bauchi-based NGO is to strengthen democratic local governance in Bauchi State. Seufert stated this while speaking at the certificate presentation ceremony to 85