The town hall meeting provided an opportunity for people to transition post-protest conversations about bad governance in Nigeria from social media to a physical space, adding faces to the voices behind the keypads
Category: election
PRESS RELEASE: TAP iNITIATIVE DEMANDS TRANSPARENT AND SECURE ELECTIONS IN KOGI, BAYELSA, AND IMO STATES
Tap Nitiative for Citizens Development, a civil society organization, call upon the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make an unwavering commitment to conduct elections that are free, fair, and transparent.
PRESS RELEASE ON SUSPENSION OF TWITTER IN NIGERIA
The Civil Society Consortium on Civic Space received with consternation the news of the decision of the regime of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari to suspend Twitter in Nigeria. Over the years, Twitter has become one of the drivers of freedom of expression, speech and Assembly not just in Nigeria but all over the world. It is…
Tweetmeet with EFCC
We had another Tweetmeet with EFCC! On the 23rd of May 2019, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) participated in a Q&A session on our Anti-Corruption, Financial Crimes and Accountability themed TweetMeet. This was an opportunity for the EFCC to shed more light to the Nigerian citizens on the commission’s continuous fight against anti-corruption…
PHOTO BLOG: #PVCfootball Novelty Match
PHOTO BLOG: #PVCfootball Viewing Centres
Football Viewing Center Report
All in furtherance of our good governance and democracy program, on the 19th of January, 2019 we used the European Premier League game between Chelsea vs Arsenal to set up viewing centers in the six geopolitical zones of the federation in Abuja, Kaduna, Gombe, Cross River, Imo and Lagos states. The aim of this initiative…
Players Meet and Greet
In our recent endeavors, TAP Nitiative concluded arrangements to stage a novelty football match at the iconic national stadium in Lagos. The event termed the #PVCFootball Awareness match is to star players from the 1994 AFCON winners against their 2013 counterparts who also won the game in South Africa. On the 12th of January 2019,…
Samson Siasia, Joseph Yobo, others to play at the TAP iNitiative #PVCFootball Awareness Match
An event to look forward to! Our next big project tagged #PVCFootball is sure to make a positive difference in the number of youth participants in the upcoming General elections! We have lined up a number of football activities to promote democratic participation of young people at the general elections from voters registration to collection…