Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun assumed office as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) in August 2024. A few days before then, civil society groups, senior legal experts, members of academia, and other reform advocates led by Tap Initiative outlined a specific and measurable agenda: end the abuse of ex-parte orders by politicians, enforce discipline within the judiciary, implement digital courts, and restore public trust amid ongoing allegations of corruption and bias
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TAP INITIATIVE 2024 ANNUAL REPORT
Last Year was an eventful year for Tap Nitiative as we worked to advance transparency, accountability, human rights and justice in both the judiciary and the Civil space. With the unwavering support of our stakeholders and our esteemed donors, we made strides toward a stronger society. As we progress into 2025, we are excited to…
REPORT ON END BAD GOVERNANCE POST PROTEST TOWN HALL HELD AT YAR’ADUA CENTRE ON THE 30TH OF AUGUST
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
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,…