Fake News Fueling Ethno-Religious Conflict, Killings In Nigeria
 By Solase Base. A nongovernmental organization,  Centre For Information Technology and Development  (CITAD) on Monday  raised alarm over increasing online news platform circulating fake news, images and calling on government to take appropriate action to check the trend. CITAD said the circulation of fake news and pictures especially on the social media is a contributory […]
CITAD Records 221 Hate,Dangerous Speeches In March
By Solace Base. The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) appealed to people and users of social media platform to develop the idea of reporting hate and Dangerous speeches so as to reduce the prevalence and forestall crisis it may lead to. CITAD Assistant program officer, Sunusi Shazalli Sulaiman made the call on Thursday […]
CITAD Holds Debate On Insurgency In Adamawa
By Hammangabdo Yola. The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has organized an advocacy debate among students of tertiary institutions as strategy to end insurgency in Adamawa state. The executive director of CITAD, Mr Yunus Zakari, while declaring the maiden debate open in Yola, said the debate was organized to provide the youths a […]
NEYIF, CITAD Hold Social Accountability Meeting in Yobe
By Musa M. Buba Damaturu. A one-day stakeholders’ meeting organised by non-governmental organisation, North East Youth Initiatives for Development (NEYIF), in collaboration with the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has ended in Damaturu with a call on the government to enact law for wider sensitisation of public on budgetary processes in Yobe […]
CITAD Engages Students To Combat Hate Speech
By Haruna Gimba Yaya, Gombe. The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has conducted a two-day sensitization workshop for students of tertiary institutions to combat hate speech. The workshop which held in Gombe had participants drawn from schools in the six states of the North-east geopolitical zone.  The Executive Director of the centre, Dr […]
CITAD Flays Use Of Social Media To Fuel Ethnic/Religious Crisis
By Patience Ogbodo Iwuagwu. Bauchi – A non-governmental organisation, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has cautioned against fuelling ethnic religious conflict and killings through the use of social media. Addressing a press conference at NUJ Secretariat in Bauchi, Mohammed Chiroma Hassan, Programme Officer of CITAD, lamented that the circulation of fake news was behind […]
CITAD Engages Students to Combat Hate Speech
By Haruna Gimba Yaya. The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has conducted a two-day sensitization workshop for students of tertiary institutions to combat hate speech. The workshop which held in Gombe had participants drawn from schools in the six states of the North-east geopolitical zone. Â The Executive Director of the centre, Dr Yunusa […]
Students Debate On Insurgency Rounded Up in Yola, Adamawa State
By Hassan Sharpella, from Yola. The Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola (MAUTECH) has emerged overral winner at the Regional Inter Tertiary Institutions debate on Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin organized by the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) with the support of the North East Regional Initiative (NERI). Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri came […]
MAUTECH Emerges Winner Of Inter Tertiary Institutions Debate On Insurgency
BY MOHAMMED ISMAIL. MAUTECH Emerges Winner Of Inter Tertiary Institutions Debate On Insurgency The Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH), Yola has emerged the winner of tertiary institutions debate on finding lasting solutions to insurgency and challenges posed by displaced persons in the North East. The debate was organized by the Centre for Information Technology […]
Regional Inter-Tertiary Institutions Students’ Debate on Insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin Held in Yola.
By Hamza Ibrahim. In continuation of the search for ideas, perspectives and mechanisms of addressing insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has with support from North East Regional Initiative (NERI) engaged students of tertiary institutions in the insurgency-ravaged North East region in debates to showcase their ideas […]
