NGO trains journalists on anti-corruption reporting

By POLYCARP AUTA

Bauchi- An NGO, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has begun a two-day training for 20 journalists on anti-corruption reporting in Nigeria.

Speaking at the event on Monday in Bauchi, the Executive Director of CITAD,  Zakari Ya’u, said that the training supported by the MacArthur Foundation, drew participants from the 19 northern states of the country.

He said that the exercise was aimed at exposing media practitioners to the menace of the high level of corruption in Nigeria

Ya’u pointed out that the training would guide participants on how to create a deeper public awareness on the evil of corruption through their reportage.

According to executive director,  the training will further expose reporters to some of the tools that can be used in researching and reporting corruption issues in the country.

”You will all agree with me that corruption has eaten deep into the fabrics of our society, and if we don’t act fast to kill it, it will kill us.

”However, we can’t kill it by mere talks; unless Nigerians come together in unison to fight the menace.

”So, this workshop is to expose and equip participants, who are generally reporters with the requisite knowledge in order to create the awareness that will excite Nigerians to be ready to fight the menace.

”We are here to  work together by sharing knowledge and fashion out ways that would deepen research and report corruption cases that would stimulate Nigerians to want to kick out the hydra-headed monster,” he said.

Ya’u also disclosed that some of the participants would be given mini grants by the organisation in order to investigate corruption cases at various levels.(NAN)

Fighting Corruption: CITAD Trains Scores of Journalists in Bauchi

Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has organized a two day workshop to some journalists that work in different media outlets on compiling reports on corrupt practices, investigative report and other multimedia skills.

The two-day workshop held on Monday 23 – Tuesday 24 of May, 2022 at Pali Suit in Bauchi state, was orchestrated to change the narration on the current issues of alleged corrupt practices by some public office holders in Nigeria, through investigative journalism.

Addressing the participants, the Director of CITAD, who spoke on the effects of fake news and how it can be dealt with, said the workshop will equip and encourage journalists on developing story ideas on human angle and general development journalism.

He explained that with the emergence of social media, the entire world has become a global village where people can easily showcase their talents in exposing the truth about any hazy event, through the use of social platforms.

Mr Buhari Abba, the moderator of the sessions, urged the participants to make the training workable and use the knowledge they have gotten to develop good stories on corruption at all levels.

The workshop mainly revolved around “researching and reporting about accountability and anti-corruption issues” in Nigeria.

CITAD Trains CSOs, CBOs On Budget Processes In Bauchi

The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has trained Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in three local government areas of Bauchi State, Toro and Alkaleri on budget processes in order to create synergy between the people and the government in budgetary and procurement processes of the state.

Daily Independent reports that the training of CSOs and CBOs on budget processes is a component of CITAD with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under a one year project, entitled”Strengthening citizens participatory budgetary process” through the “State Accountability Transparency and Effectiveness (State2 State) to implement governance in the state.

Speaking in welcome remarks during the training that was held at the Medical and Health Workers Union secretariat in Bauchi, the Executive Director of CITAD, Dr Yunusa Zakari Yau said that by increasing citizens’ awareness of the budget process, citizens will be equipped to make informed inputs to the various stages across the budget cycle, further improving accountability in the government’s budgets process and system.

Represented by the CITAD Senior Programme Officer, Isah Garba, the Executive Director said that the objective of the training was to enhance the capacity of CSOs and CBOs to engage both government and citizens in the budget process and to improve citizens’ participation in budget processes and government officials.

He told the participants to engage in budget tracking in order to ensure prompt release of money budgeted for particular sectors of the state economy, adding that they should engage people from the grassroot through enlightenment in order for them to know their right to public property.

Giving an overview of the State2 State Project, the CITAD Senior Programme Officer, Isah Garba said that the budget is the most critical document in governance, hence citizens must engage in the processes to have a sense of belonging in affairs of government.

He said that the training also so makes the participants understand budget processes and other areas of engagement where the CSOs and CBOs can engage the government in drafting the budget, down to its implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

” We want the participants of this training to also understand the implementation report, to see the level of assessment conducted and level of improvement gotten in a certain year as well as how to create a synergy between the legislature and communities in developing communal agenda”

“So if the budget is truly for the citizens of the state, there is no how the budget will be formulated and implemented without the contributions of the people within the state. So, that is what we want to do, but we are going to achieve this through the CSO and CBO organizations who will serve as representatives of the general citizens of the state” he said

CITAD Advocates For Synergy Between Govt, Citizens On Budget Process

The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has advocated for synergy between government and citizens in budgetary and procurement processes in Bauchi state. Our correspondent reports that CITAD training of CSOs and CBOs on budget processes with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under a one year project, entitled”Strengthening citizens participatory budgetary process” through the “State Accountability Transparency and Effectiveness (State2 State) in the state. The Executive Director CITAD, Dr Yunusa Zakari Yau made the call during the Civil Society Organizations CBOs and Community Based Organizations CBOs from Bauchi,Toro and Alkaleri on budget processes on Saturday in Bauchi. Read Also: 2023 Presidency: Christian Youth Group Passes Confidence Vote On Dauda He said the essence of the training was too stressed the need to create synergy between the people and the government in budgetary and procurement processes of the state. Yau said that by increasing citizens awareness of the budget process, citizen’s will be equipped to make informed inputs to the various stages across the budget cycle, further improving accountability in the government’s budgets process and system. The Executive Director, represented by the CITAD Senior Programme Officer, Isah Garba, said that the objective of the training was to enhance the capacity of CSOs and CBOs to engage both government and citizens in the budget process and to improve citizens’ participation in budget processes and government officials. He urged the participants to engage in budget tracking in order to ensure prompt release of money budgeted for particular sectors of the state economy. Ya’u added that they should engage people from the grassroot through enlightenment in order for them to know their right to public property. Malam Isah Garba, CITAD Senior Programme Officer,while giving an overview of the State2 State Project, said that the budget is the most critical document in governance, hence citizens must engage in the processes to have a sense of belonging in the affairs of government. He said that the training is for the participants to understand budget processes and other areas of engagement where the CSOs and CBOs can engage the government in drafting the budget, to its implementation, monitoring and evaluation. “We want the participants of this training to also understand the implementation report, to see the level of assessment conducted and level of improvement gotten in a certain year as well as how to create a synergy between the legislature and communities in developing a communal agenda”. “So if the budget is truly for the citizens of the state, there is no way the budget will be formulated and implemented without the contributions of the citizens within the state. He reiterated that CSO and CBO organizations should serve as representatives of the general citizens of the state.

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Gender-Based Violence cases still on increase, says CITAD

The Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD, expressed that based on their regular monitoring of Gender-Based Violence through CITAD’S Mobile GBV App revealed persistent occurrence of Gender-Based Violence, most especially the high number of sexual harassments.

In comparison with the data obtained in previous months, GBV cases are still on the increase.

35 cases were reported via the GBV App for the month which includes Rape, Sexual Harassment, Online Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Wife Battering and school violence.

While monitoring, CITAD received an anonymous tip as follows “Assalamu alaikum, my report is based on school violence, Report from Aminu Kano College of  Islamic and Legal Studies”, the report is between a lecturer and student, which he holds their exams despite the students have scaled through.

“This shows that violence in school needs to be given attention”.

Fatima Baba Kura, representative gender technical officer, said monitoring and reporting of these violence cases have increased awareness amongst individuals and the society at large.

“We hope to continue to intensify our efforts in creating more awareness in all areas and communities within the state.

“We would like to commend the efforts of all stakeholders in intensifying their effort to create awareness against GBV.

“While we continue to monitor, we will like to appeal to parents, relatives and others to always report cases to the various to either directly to us or to other sister NGOs as well as to government agencies such as National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), National Orientation Agency (NOA), Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) or Hisbah.

“GBV strives when we all keep quiet. We cannot win the battle against it unless every perpetrator is brought to the books” She said.

Fatima advised that keeping silent will not protect the victims who suffer. It encourages the perpetrators to take this silence as a stamp of acceptability.

However CITAD recommend the following towards fighting GBV

  • We urge the public to always report cases of GBV to the relevant authorities.
  • We call on the government to intensify efforts to put laws that protect individuals against GBV in place so that perpetrators can desist from such acts.
  • Online violence is on the increase, we recommend the public to be aware that violence online is not acceptable.
  • We urge school authorities to constitute a team of observers that will monitor and report GBV.
  • We also call on teachers/lecturers to uphold their duty towards the students in their care. As Teachers, they need to protect such students and not violate them.

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK 23RD TO 20TH MAY, 2022

1. Event: Training of 40 CBOS and CSOS Partners on Budgetary Processes
Venue: Misau Local Govt. Bauchi, Bauchi State
Date: Monday 23 rd May, 2022
Time: 9:00am
For details Pease, Contact mujahid@citad.org
2. Event: CITAD-DAP Update Meeting
Venue: Online
Date: Monday, May 23, 2022
Time: 12:00am
For more information please contact info@citad.org
3. Programme: Criminality in a Society; Causes & How to Curtail it
Anchor: Sheik Abbas Alhassan
Date: Every Monday
Time: 11am-11:30am
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
4. Program: Likitan CITAD
Topic: Farfadiya (Epelapsy)
Guest: Dr. Kabiru A. Yusuf
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
Date: Duk Ranar Litinin
Time: 2:30pm
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
5. Programme: Public Speaking Is Not a Barrier
Anchor: Sheik Abbas Alhassan
Date: every Wednesday
Time: 10:30
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
6. Event: Partnership Session with selected SCOS/CBOS with similar objective to S2S project
Venue: Bauchi
Date: Wednesday 25 th May, 2022
Time: 9am
For details please, contact: mujahid@citad.org
7. Event: Management meeting
Date: Thursday, May 26 th , 2022
Venue: CITAD, Kano
Time: 4pm
For more information please contact info@citad.org
8. Event: Twitter Chat on COVID19 Vaccination Centres in Kano
Date: Every Thursday (26 th May, 2022)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Twitter.
For more Information, please contact hamza@citad.org
9. Program: LITERACY CAN'T WAIT

Anchor: Patience Obande
Date: Every Thursday
Time: 11am
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
10. Event: Martabar Ƴa Mace
Venue: Guarantee Radio FM
Date: Thursday 26 th May, 2022
Time: 11:00am – 12:00PM
For more Information, please contact: buhari@citad.org
11. Event: Critical Knowledge Production Dialogue Series on Youth and Peace Building
Venue: Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kano
Date: Thursday 26 th May, 2022
Time: 10:00am
For more Information, please contact: aliyuma.economics@buk.edu.ng
12. Event: Presentation of Gifts to Winners of COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign
Date: Thursday, May 26 th , 2022
Venue: Hall B 2 nd Floor CITAD, Kano
Time: 9am
For more information please contact hamza@citad.org
13. Event: Monthly Dialogue on Anti-Corruption Fight in Nigeria
Guests: Odoh Okenyodo, Country Director Splendors of Dawn, Deji Bademosi, Founder and Editor-in-Chief,
TV360 and Efe Paul Azino, Co-Founder, West African International Poetry Festival
Date: Thursday, 26th May, 2022
Time: 11am
Venue: Online For more information please contact asabo@citad.org
14. Event: Meeting with School GBV Monitors
Date: Thursday, 26th May 2021
Venue: Conference room CITAD, Kano
Time: 3:00pm
For more Information, please contact: zainab@citad.org
15. Event: Dialogue session between CSOs and Legislators
Venue: Misau Local Govt. Bauchi, Bauchi State
Date: Friday 27 th May, 2022
Time: 9:00am
For details Pease, Contact mujahid@citad.org
16. Event: CITAD-ITU Consultative Meeting
Venue: Online
Date: Friday, May 26, 2022
Time: 11:45am
For more information please contact info@citad.org
17. Event: Hate Speech Team Meeting
Date: Friday, May 27 th , 2022
Venue: CITAD, Kano
Time: 10 am
For more information please contact info@citad.org

18. Event: PEV Team Meeting
Date: Friday, May 27 th , 2022
Venue: CITAD, Kano
Time: 3pm
For more information please contact info@citad.org
19. Event: Celebration of Children’s Day (Tree Planting Exercise)
Venue: Guto Community Bwari Area Council FCT
Date: Friday 27 th May, 2022
Time: 10:00am
For details Pease, Contact yesmin@citad.org
20. Event: One-day workshop for journalists on understand the Gender Digital Divide and the efforts
being made to address it
Date: Friday, 27th May 2021
Venue: CITAD Hall, B
Time: 9am
For more Information, please contact: ibrahim@citad.org
21. Event: Rigar Mutunci
Venue: Arewa Radio
Date: Every Saturday 28 th May, 2022
Time: 11:00am – 12:00PM
For more Information, please contact: buhari@citad.org
22. Event: Zauren Ɗan-Ƙasa
Venue: Albarka Radio 97.5 FM, Bauchi
Date: Every Saturday (28 th May, 2022)
Time: 4-5.pm
For more Information, please contact: mujahid@citad.org
23. Event: Mufahimchi Rigakafin korona
Venue: Jewel FM Gombe, Gombe State
Date: Every Sunday, 2022
Time: 11:00am-12:00
For more Information, please contact: mujahid@citad.org

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK 19TH TO 25TH APRIL, 2022

1. Event: Workshop for Guidance and Counselling (G&C) Officers of Science and Technical
Schools Board, Kano State
Time: 9:30am
Date: April 19, 2022.
For more Information, please contact kamilu@citad.org
2. Programme: Criminality in a Society; Causes And How To Curtail it
Anchor: Sheik Abbas Alhassan
Date: Every Monday
Time: 11am-11:30am
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
3. Program: Likitan CITAD
Topic: Farfadiya (Epelapsy)
Guest: Dr. Kabiru A. Yusuf
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
Date: Duk Ranar Litinin
Time: 2:30pm
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
4. Programme: Public Speaking Is Not a Barrier
Anchor: Sheik Abbas Alhassan
Date: every Wednesday
Time: 10:30
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
5. Event: Presentation of Certificates to Trained Teachers of some Secondary Schools in Kano State
Venue: GGSS Jambulo, Kano
Date: Wednesday 20 th April, 2022
Time: 11:00am
For more information please contact kamilu@citad.org
6. Event: Inspiring Leadership Reflection Interactive Series (ILERIS)
Guest Speaker: Hajiya Rabi Hussain, CEO/Founder First Grade Comprehensive College, Kano (Former
Commissioner Ministry of Education Jigawa State)
Date: Thursday 21 st April, 2022
Venue: Hall B, CITAD Kano
Time: 10:00am
For more information please contact sagir@citad.org
7. Event: Monthly Dialogue on Anti-Corruption Fight in Nigeria
Panelists:
1. Jack Vincent, Freelance Journalist, Maiduguri
2. Toyosi Akereli, Executive Director, Rise Networks, Lagos
3. Olumide Olaniyan of Lucidity of Absurdity (Poetry)
Date: Thursday, 21st April, 2022
Time: 11-1
Venue: zoom
For more Information, please contact: asabo@citad.org

8. Event: World Creativity and Innovation Day
Date: Thursday 21 st  April, 2022
Venue: ZOOM
Time: 2:00pm
For more information please contact kamal@citad.org
9. Event: Twitter Chat on COVID19 Vaccination Centres in Kano
Date: Thursday 7 th April, 2022.
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Twitter.
For more Information, please contact hamza@citad.org
10. Program: LITERACY CAN'T WAIT
Anchor: Patience Obande
Date: Every Thursday
Time: 11am
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
11. Event: Zauren Ɗan-Ƙasa
Venue: Albarka Radio 97.5 FM, Bauchi
Date: Saturday 16 th April, 2022
Time: 4-5.pm
For more Information, please contact: mujahid@citad.org

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK 11TH TO 17TH APRIL, 2022

1. Event: Social Media for Accountability Online Training
Date: Monday –Tuesday 11th & 12th April 2022
Time: 9:30am
Venue: Zoom.
For more information please contact suhail@citad.org
2. Programme: Criminality in a Society; Causes And How To Curtail it
Anchor: Sheikh Abbas Alhassan
Date: Every Monday
Time: 11am-11:30am
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
3. Program: Likitan CITAD
Topic: Farfadiya (Epelapsy)
Guest: Dr. Kabiru A. Yusuf
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
Date: Duk Ranar Litinin
Time: 2:30pm
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
4. Event: Meeting with Northern States Executive Secretaries of Primary Health Care Development Agencies
Venue: Treasures Suites and Conferences, Abuja.
Date: Wednesday 13th April, 2022
Time: 10:00am
For more Information, please contact: hamza@citad.org
5. Programme: Public Speaking Is Not a Barrier
Anchor: Sheikh Abbas Alhassan
Date: every Wednesday
Time: 10:30
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
6. Event: GBV Monthly Press Conference
Venue: CITAD HALL B
Date: Thursday, 14th April, 2022
Time: 11:00am
For more information please contact zainab@citad.org
7. Program: LITERACY CAN’T WAIT
Anchor: Patience Obande
Date: Every Thursday
Time: 11am
Venue: CITAD Online Radio
For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org
8. Event: Martabar’ya mace
Venue: Guarantee Radio FM
Date: Thursday 7th April, 2022
Time: 11:00am to 12:00pm
For more details, please contact Zainab@citad.org
9. Event: ICT Classes for Teachers of GGSS Janbulo and Aisami
Venue: CITAD Lab
Date: Monday 11th to Friday 15th April, 2022
Time: 10:00pm to 1:00pm
For more Information, please contact: zainab@citad.org
10. Event: Mu Fahimci Riga Kafin Corona
Date: Saturday, 16th April, 2022
Time: 11am
Venue: Radio Kano (AM/FM)
For more Information, please contact hamza@citad.org
11. Event: Zauren Ɗan-Ƙasa
Venue: Albarka Radio 97.5 FM, Bauchi
Date: Saturday 16th April, 2022
Time: 4-5.pm
For more Information, please contact: mujahid@citad.org
12. Event: Rigar Mutunci
Venue: Arewa Radio
Date: Sunday 17th April, 2022
Time: 11:00 – 12:00PM
For more Information, please contact buhari@citad.org
13. Event: Continuation of DIT program
Time: 9:30am
Venue: CITAD Training Center Itas
Date: Saturday, 16th – Sunday 17th April 2022
For more information please contact muneeb@citad.org
14. Event: Social Media for Accountability Training for Itas Local Govt Youth
Venue:  CITAD Training Center Itas LG, Bauchi State
Date: Wednesday & Thursday 13th -14th
Time: 10:00am
For more details, please contact: sagir@citad.org
15. Event: Entrepreneurship Training for Jama’are Local Govt Youth
Venue: CITAD Training Center Jama’are, LG, Bauchi State
Date: Wednesday & Thursday 13th -14th
Time: 10:00am
 For more details, please contact: sagir@citad.org

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK 21ST T0 27TH MARCH, 2022

  1. Event: Advocacy Visit

Venue: Kano State Polytechnic (Central Administration)

Date: 21st March, 2022

Time: 10:00am

For more Information, please contact: buhari@citad.org

  1. Programme: Criminality In a Society; Causes And How To Curtail it

Anchor: Sheik Abbas Alhassan

Date: Every Monday

Time: 11am-11:30am

Venue: CITAD Online Radio

For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org

  1. Program: Likitan CITAD

Topic: Farfadiya (Epelapsy)

Guest: Dr. Kabiru A. Yusuf

Venue: CITAD Online Radio

Date: Duk Ranar Litinin

Time: 2:30pm

For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org

  1. Event: ICT Classes

Venue: GGSS JANBULO

Date: Tuesday, 22nd March, 2022

Time: 11:00am to 1:00pm

For more Information, please contact: zainab@citad.org

  1. Programme: Public Speaking Is Not a Barrier

Anchor: Sheik Abbas Alhassan

Date: every Wednesday

Time: 10:30

Venue: CITAD Online Radio

For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org

  1. Event: ICT classes

Venue: GGSS AISAMI

Date: Wednesday 23rd March, 2022

Time: 11:00am to 1:00pm

For more Information, please contact: zainab@citad.org

  1. Event:  Inspiring Leadership Reflection Interactive Series (ILERIS)

Guest: Prof. Habu Muhammed Fagge

Venue: Hall B, 2nd Floor, CITAD, Kano

Date:   Thursday 24th March, 2022

Time:   10:00am

For more Information, please contact: sagiru@citad.org

  1. Event: Twitter Chat on COVID19 Vaccination Centres in Kano

Date: Thursday 24th March, 2022.

Time: 2:30pm

Venue: Twitter.

For more Information, please contact hamza@citad.org

  1. Program: LITERACY CAN’T WAIT

Anchor: Patience Obande

Date: Every Thursday

Time: 11am

Venue: CITAD Online Radio

For more Information, please contact asabo@citad.org

  1. Event: Martabar’ya mace

Venue: Guarante Radio FM

Date: Thursday 24th March 2022

Time: 11:00am to 12:00pm

For details, please contact Zainab@citad.org

  1. Event: ICT Classes for Teachers of GGSS Janbulo and Aisami

Venue: CITAD Lab

Date: Friday 18th March, 2022

Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm

For more Information, please contact: zainab@citad.org

  1. Event: Mu Fahimci Riga Kafin Corona

Date: Saturday, 26th March, 2022

Time: 9am

Venue: Radio Kano (Am/FM)

For more Information, please contact hamza@citad.org

  1. Event: ICT Classes

Venue: GGSS Dorayi Karama

Date: Thursday 14th March, 2022

Time: 11:00am to 1:00pm

For more information, please contact zainab@citad.org

  1. Event: Continuation of DIT program

Date: 19th – 22nd March, 2022 Saturday- Tuesday.

Time: 10:00am

 Venue: CITAD Office, GSS Itas, Bauchi State

 For more information, please contact muneeb@citad.org

  1. Event: Learn and teach other computer training (LATO)

School: Kyawawa primary School Jamaare

Date:  Tuesday, 22 March, 2022.

Time: 10:00am- 12:00pm

For more information, please Contact dahiru@citad.org

  1. Event: Zauren Ɗan-Ƙasa

Venue: Albarka Radio 97.5 FM, Bauchi

Date: Saturday 20th March, 2022

Time: 4-5.pm

For more Information, please contact: mujahid@citad.org

  1. Event: Rigar Mutunci

Venue: Arewa Radio

Date: Sunday 27th March, 2022

Time: 11:00 – 12:00PM

For more Information, please contact buhari@citad.org

DIGITAL CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION FOR YOUNG WOMEN (DICI-YOW)

Invitation for participation 

The centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) with support from Lenovo Foundation is starting women-focused incubatorship entitled Digital Creativity and Innovation for Young Women (DICI-YOW). The goal of the initiative is to create jobs for women and girls while the specific objectives are:

  1. To provide digital skills training for 200 girls (100 per year)
  2. To produce 80 digital entrepreneurs (40 per year)
  3. To create 160 new digital jobs for girls (80 per year)

The Programme consists of four phases and will last 10 months as followed:

Phase 1: Basic Digital Skills (one month)

Phase 2: Advanced Digital Skills (1 month)

Phase 3: Business Ideation (2months)

Phase 4: Incubator (6months)

Expected outcome:

As an incubator programme, it’s beneficiaries will at the end harvest some digital businesses providing goods or services to the public 

Target Beneficiaries 

  1. Beneficiaries must be girls between the ages of 18-30
  2. They must have a minimum of secondary school education 
  3. Must be capable of communicating in both written and oral English 
  4. Must be interested in building and running a business of their own 
  5. Participants must be based either in Kano, Bauchi or Gombe states. In addition, participants should ordinarily be resident in either Azare, Gombe or Kano or can make arrangement to accommodate themselves in any of these three places for the duration of the programme.

Invitation 

Interested girls who meet the criteria above are invited to apply. Applicants should include photocopies of their credentials, indication of interest of participation letter. Application should be submitted on or before June 11, 2022. 

Note: 

While at the level of incubator participants would be provided with some training allowance, participation in the first two phases will not attract allowance. In addition, progression into the different phases of the programme is based on performance.

For more details about the programme, visit ww.citad.org/DICI_YOW

DIGITAL CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION FOR GIRLS (DICIG)

Introduction 

Empowering girls to have access to digital skills is one way of addressing the gender digital divide. But bridging the digital divide should not just be an end in itself. It should contribute to the greater empowerment of women to overcome gender marginalization. In particular, digital skills should be the tools to create jobs for women and girls, thus reducing unemployment amongst women and reducing poverty as well.  In other words, this should be a means for the de-feminisation of poverty in the Nigeria. 

Objectives 

The digital creativity and innovation for girls (DICIG) is specifically designed to contribute in doing this. Its specific objectives include:

  1. Provide digital skills training for 200 girls (100 per year)
  2. To produce 80 digital entrepreneurs (40 per year)
  3. Create 160 new digital jobs for girls (80 per year)

Target Beneficiaries 

  1. Beneficiaries must be girls between the ages of 18-30
  2. They must have a minimum of secondary school education 
  3. Must be capable of communicating in both written and oral English 
  4. Must be interested in building and running their business 
  5. Participants must be based either in Kano, Bauchi or Gombe States. In addition, participants should ordinarily be resident in either Azare, Gombe or Kano or can make arrangement to accommodate themselves in any of these three places for the duration of the programme.

Total Programme Duration: 10 months 

Programme Phases 

The programme will be conducted in phases. There are four phases as follows:

  1. Phase 1: Basis Digital skills (one month): participants will undergo a 20-hour basic digital literary consisting of Introduction to Windows, Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint and internet application.  
  2. Phase 2: advance Digital Skills (one Month): participants will understand another 30-hour module of advance digital skills.
  3. Phase 3: business ideation (2 months}
    1. Introduction to business regulatory environment 
    2. Tech ideas: moving from concept to practice
    3. Conceptualizing the value chain of the business 
    4. Produce/service specification
    5. Understanding the market and client base building  
    6.  Digital marketing
    7. Labour and skills need for the business
    8. Capital requirements and capital mobilizing strategies
    9. Business Sustainability issues 
    10. ICTs in Business 
  4. Phase 4: business development support services (6moths)
    1. Enable cohort to register their business and meet all corporate requirements 
    2. Service/good packaging and branding 
    3.  Developing Exit Plans 
  5. Phase 5: Transition to market (one month): This period is for implementing exit plan and getting out to the real world of business 

Content 

Digital Literacy 

  1. Computer appreciation
  2. Word processing 
  3. Introduction to excel 
  4. PowerPoint 
  5. Internet utilization 

Advanced 

  1. Coding 
  2. Website design 
  3. Graphics design 
  4. Mobile apps development 

 

Benefit to Participants 

  • Phase 1 Benefits
      1. Free digital literacy training 
      2. Certificate of participation 
    1. Phase 2 Benefits 
      1. Free advance training 
      2. Transport allowance for attending the training 
      3. Certificate of attendance 
    2. Phase 3 Benefits
      1. Free business development training 
      2. Free business consulting clinics 
      3. Transport support to attendance 
      4. Access to free office support 
      5.  Free business registration 
  • Mentoring
    1. Phase 4 Benefits
      1. Possible of business support 
      2. Promoted to business accelerator 
      3. Free marketing services of their goods/services
  • Free Co-working spaces to entrepreneurs and professionals building innovative businesses and projects 

Excepted Outcomes 

Interested girls who meet the criteria above are invited to apply. Applicants should include photocopies of their credentials, indication of interest of participation letter. Application should be submitted on or before June 11, 2022. 

Selection Processes

An advert will be prepared, invited interest and qualified potential participants to apply to enrol. Selected participants will undergo an orientation programme of one day during which the nature of the programme would be fully explained to them.

The second level of selection is at the end of the digital basic skills training: here participants will be selected on the basis of the following criteria:

  1. Their performance at the digital skills training phase
  2. Their interest to continue
  3. Preparation and submit of a business idea 

 

JOPIS PROFILE

JOPIS PROFILE

JOPIS: Stands for Job Placement Information Services

  • Job Placement Information Services (JOPIS) is a scheme by CITAD to assist youth looking for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities by bringing information about job/entrepreneurship opportunities to them.

Functions of the JOPIS UNIT

  • Getting job opportunities on newspapers and Libraries 
  • Collaborating with reliable sites advertising job opportunities
  • Creating library and reference on the job opportunities so as easily refer to it when the need arises.
  • Focusing on the jobs that people may like
  • Advertising  interview clue techniques
  • Sensitization and training workshops
  • Job Placement Officer will be responsibility for providing advice, council and information to prospective applicants
  • Staff that come across with any job opportunity should alert the JOPIS unit in order to advertise it

All the job vacancies, Employment and entrepreneurship opportunities are posting timely on friend of CITAD, CITAD ALMUNI, Peace now facebook pages and CITAD main website.

SCHOOLS BENEFITED FROM JOPIS

  • Number of Senior Secondary Schools in Kano, Jigawa and Bauchi State
  • Final Year Students of the Peace Clubs in BUK, FUD, ATBU, Alqalam University, Sa’adatu Rimi Collage of Education and FCE Kano

 

JOPIS BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE GOTTEN GRANT

S/N Name Source of Grant Enterprise Contact
Sufyan Lawan Kabo Tony Elumelu Foundation Sefjamil Media and Development 08062114448
Sufyan lawan Kabo Big Portal, World Bank Sefjamil Media and Development 08062114448
Ado Shehu Big Portal, World bank Yam powder  (Ado Shehu & Sons Ltd) 08038639214
Ibrahim Aboki Tony Elumelu Foundation Tomato Farming, (Fatara farm) tomato 08069612211
Barau Azare YouWin Poultry farming 08036305226
Abubakar Auyo Tony Elumelu Foundation Powder Onion (Ayama farm) 070349585
Suleiman Muhammad, Katsina Fadama Guys III Maize Farming 07034953978
Abdulaziz Yunusa Ya’u Fadama Guys III Poultry Farming 08033306913
Sa’adatu Muhammad Fadama Guys III Poultry Farming 07061367678
Wasila Ahmad Fadama Guys III Poultry Farming 08067642002
Rukayyat Ahmad Fadama Guys III Fish Farming 08034119738
Khalid Hussain Graduate Entrepreneurship Fund Oil Mill 08072079908
       

 

JOPIS BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE GOTTEN EMPLOYMENT

S/N Name Place of Placement Programmes Related Contact
Aliyu D. Aliyu Centre for Democracy and Development Internship and JOSIP placement service 09039128220
Idris Mohammed Centre for Democracy and Development JOSIP placement service  
Abubakar Maikatifa Centre for Democracy and Development JOSIP placement service 08028764173
Abdulraship Sadir   Internship 08062528361
Abdullahi A. Abdullahi Board of Internal Revenue, Kano State Internship 08060309918
Ibrahim Sulaiman Voice of Nigerian, Abuja Internship 08067779055
Jamae Itodo Radio Nigeria, Abuja JOSIP placement service 08035992451
Abubakar Mukhtar Yusuf Maitam University, Kano Internship and JoSIP Placement  
Hauwa Dauda Attah M4D, Kano JOSIP Placement 07030801231
Umar Farouq WAEC, Lagos Internship 08038489501
Kamilu Isah Ahmad CITAD, Kano Internship 08063998787
Ahmad Gwadabe Rice Mill Ltd, Kano JOSIP Placement 08068173759
Abdulaziz Yunusa Ya’u CWG PLC Internship and JOSIP Placement 08033306913
Maryam Ibrahim Azhan-noor Nursery and Primary School JOSIP placement service 08133335667
Zahra Y Ya’u Bayero University, Kano Digital Summer Institute  
Nafisa Abubakar Abalan Kwankwasiyya Organization JOSIP placement service 07068013790
Joyce  Emmanuel  Mbaka Kwankwasiyya Organization JOSIP placement service 08032703107
Hauwa Dauda Attah M4D, Kano JOSIP Placement 07030801231
Umar Farouq WAEC, Lagos Internship 08038489501
Kamilu Isah Ahmad CITAD, Kano Internship 08063998787
Ahmad Gwadabe Rice Mill Ltd, Kano JOSIP Placement 08068173759

 

The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has presented prizes to winners in the 4th round of its ‘Report a Project Competition’.

The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has presented prizes to winners in the 4th round of its ‘Report a Project Competition’.

The Centre said the champions were honored to encourage them to continue contributing their best for the sustainable growth and development of society.

The program, according to the Center, is in support of the MacArthur Foundation and is targeted at encouraging students from tertiary institutions to report abandoned or poorly executed projects in their respective communities.

In his remarks, the Executive Director of the Centre Dr. Y.Z Ya’u said the essence of the project was in line with the pursuit of a collective action to demand accountability from the government at all levels.

The Executive Director, represented by the Centre’s Training Coordinator, Mal. Ahmad Abdullahi Yakasai explained that the idea is an accelerated step to holding governments accountable for their actions in the spirit of transparency as a critical element of good governance and improving citizens’ livelihood.

He further charged the trio winners to continue with the report on abandoned public projects not only because of what they’ll get but for the collective interest of the general populace.

The winner of the competition, Abubakar Aliyu who reported 4 years of abandoned Classes at Government Secondary School Dan-Maliki, Kumbotso L.G, Kano state was presented with a Computer, H.P model.

While the first runner-up Hussaini Musa was presented with a Huawei Android mobile phone, the Y-5 Prime model for reporting a 7 years abandoned project at the Federal College of Education, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The second runner-up got a Nokia Android mobile phone, C.1 model for reporting 6 years of abandoned Theatre projects at the Federal College of Education, Kano.

Report On 2022 International Girls in ICT Day Celebration

Girls are poorly placed to benefit from the knowledge economy in developing countries. As such they have less access to skills training and development that would enable them to gain employment in the ICT sector. When females are employed, they generally work at lower levels, with less pay and this discourages them from participating optimally in science and technology education. These disadvantages further prevent girls and women from benefitting equally from the opportunities offered by the new technologies that would enable them to participate in the knowledge economy.

 

Concerned about the decline in the number of school girls opting to study technology-related disciplines and who work in technology focused organizations in most countries worldwide, 28th of April 2022, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in collaboration with Dala Ina Mafita organised an awareness programme to mark the International Girls in ICT Day. The event was held at the Guidance Standard School, Goron Dutse, Kano. The participants were girls from different community-based associations as well as students of public secondary schools in the state.

 

Observed in more than 166 countries across the globe, the Day, an initiative of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the International Girls-in-ICT Day was backed by all ITU members.

 

The Day was aimed at creating global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider careers in the field of information and communications technology (ICT).

 

Access and Safety was selected as the 2022 thematic priority as part of the initial step for girls to be able to access the digital environment in a safe way. 

 

Speaking at the event, CITAD Executive Director representative Malam Ahmad Abdullahi Yakasai, said the Centre partnered with the organisers to expose participants to the various career opportunities available in the ICT sector, apart from encouraging them to aspire to such jobs.

 

Yakasai, told the participants who were drawn from different communities in Kano that the world now revolved around ICT and that the future holds a lot of promises for them should they go into the ICT sector.

 

CITAD Gender Officer Zainab Aminu, said that while significant progress has been achieved with increasing the participation of girls in the gender gap in ICT remains unacceptably wide, with representation continuing to be disproportionately higher for males than for females, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

 

Zainab, expressed concern that the gap was even wider in Nigeria, relative to countries like Ghana and South Africa. She reaffirmed that investment in early ICT education, affirmative action on the hiring of women in STEM and a reorientation to change the sociocultural beliefs and practices that deter women’s participation in STEM, as approaches that should be explored to reduce this gap.

 

The Chairperson of International Federation of Women Lawyers – FIDA, Kano State Branch, Barr. Bilkisu Ibrahim Sulaiman, noted that the global event presented a platform for various stakeholders to not only highlight the gender digital divide but proffer solutions and build partnerships that will help accelerate the movement towards the increased involvement of girls in ICT. She expressed appreciation for CITAD in continuous support for the Girls in ICT initiative and commended the CITAD sensitization lecture which will provide an opportunity for girls to gain a first-hand experience of working in the ICT sector.

 

Next was an interactive session with Engr. Kamaluddeen Umar leading the session, said empowering girls to choose a career in ICTs is not just good for girls and their families, it can be a major accelerator of socio-economic development at the national level.

 

According to him, the Day serves to inspire both government and the private sector to find ways to equip girls and young women with the skills they need to become ICT professionals.

 

At end of the sensitization participants asked some questions relating to the presentations made and they fed their curiosity.