Group Charges Stakeholders on Hate, Dangerous Speech
By Akpeji Charles. The need for stakeholders in Nigeria to work together to combat the generation and spread of hate and dangerous speech in the country, have become a source of concern to the leadership of Centre for Information Technology and Development The leadership of the organization who recently engaged different ethnic groups, Non-Governmental Organizations […]
The Resilience of Nigerians?
By Adagbo Onoja. As the Coordinator of the “National Conference on Community Resilience to Boko Haram Insurgencyâ€, Professor Jibrin Ibrahim must have developed a certain intellectual intimacy with the data and dynamics of resilience as to be sensitive to bringing all angles to it and avoid a celebratory discourse of the concept. This is the […]
Do Governments, Leaders Worry Nigeria is Trapping Her Future?, Conferees Ask
Senior academics, discussants and researchers at the just ended “National Conference on Community Resilience to Boko Haram Insurgency†wondered if governments and leaders in Nigeria worry about certain practices which they equate with trapping the future. By trapping the future, they were referring to practices with potentials to explode in the future. One of such […]
Nigerian Researchers Unpack Resilience to Boko Haram, Downgrades the Poverty Thesis
Researchers in Nigeria studying the nature and pattern of resilience to Boko Haram insurgency have concluded on the note that breakdown of social cohesion, unemployment, leadership at local levels, crisis of trust between the people and security agencies, poverty and geography were the most decisive factors which shaped resilience to the Boko Haram insurgency in […]
Taraba State CSOs Trained On Internet Security and Safety
By Hamza Ibrahim Chinade. The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has organized a capacity building workshop for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Taraba state on Internet Security and Safety issues. The training which took place at Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) secretariat Jalingo was aimed at alerting and equipping members of civil society […]
CITAD Takes Public Sensitization on Hate and Dangerous Speech to North-East.
By Hamza Ibrahim Chinade. As it widens the scope and strategy of curbing Hate and Dangerous Speech in Nigeria especially on social and conventional media with a view to ending religious and tribal speech, utterances or comments that pose threat to peace and mutual coexistence among adherents of different religions, tribes, affiliations, or groups, the […]
APPLICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ABUJA SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG WOMEN
This form must be completed and submitted by all prospective participants Introduction The Annual Abuja Sumer Institute (ASI) for Young Women is an Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) and Women’s Rights Advancements and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) in collaboration with the African Studies Program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) […]
Kano 13th Annual ICT Quiz
By Sagiru Ado ICT quiz continue to be a major ingredient for raising awareness on ICT among teachers and students, encouraging the study of computer education and test ICT knowledge of students of secondary schools. In its effort to promote the ICT literacy in the state and the country,
How Boko Haram Has Crippled Yobe Economy-Expert at CITAD Workshop
An expert has revealed how the advent of Boko Haram insurgency has crippled business activities in Yobe State, north west Nigeria. “Non-indigenes in Yobe who constituted the (majority) in the commercial and trading activities ..were forced to flee. ..evidence abound ..in Damaturu,Potiskum and Gashua where gaps were created.In most cases , the important goods required […]
REPORT OF ICT SENSITIZATION WORKSHOP ORGANIZED BY CITAD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BABURA FACEBOOK USERS FORUM ON 21/12/2013 AT BABURA TOWN, BABURA LGA, JIGAWA STATE
By Sufyan Lawal Kabo On 21/12/2013, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in its effort to sensitize rural communities on how to use ICTs for community development, collaborated with Babura Facebook Users Forum and organised a one day workshop on the use of ICT for community development at GGSS Babura. At least 103 […]
