Let's Talk Naija with Dacurate

Soji Apampa co-founded The Convention on Business Integrity in 1997. He is an Executive Director for the Convention on Business Integrity and also serves as a Consultant on CBi projects. Mr. Apampa has served as a Senior Advisor to the UN Global Compact on the 10th Principle (anti-corruption) and consultant to the Inter-Agency Task Team of the Federal Republic of Nigeria tasked with the responsibility of developing a National Strategy to Combat Corruption. In his role as a consultant, Mr. Apampa has carried out numerous assignments for international organizations including the World Bank, DFID, UNDP, UN Global Compact, Heinrich Boell Foundation and many others.

Mr. Apampa has also worked in various roles in engineering, business and computing between 1987 and 2007. He was Managing Director of SAP Nigeria Ltd, and Regional Manager (West Africa), for SAP where he worked for 8 years since early 1999 championing ICT-supported governance reforms. Mr. Apampa graduated with a B.Eng. (Hons) in Civil & Structural Engineering from the University of Sheffield in 1987 and holds an MSc. in Governance & Finance from Liverpool John Moores University (2008) where he was member of faculty on the Corporate Governance Masters Programme at the European Center for Corporate Governance for one year. His research interests are in the area of Corporate Compliance and Political Economy Analyses in which he has led numerous, successful research projects. We spoke to him on his thought on The Role of Integrity & Ethics in Nigeria's Governance.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Macdonald Okoh, the winner of the inaugural Dacurate Debate. In our conversation, he candidly discussed his preparations leading up to the event and shared his perspectives on the political awareness among young individuals.

Since Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been sworn in, there has been a lot of news about who will be the new senate president. The outgoing senate president is ahmad lawan from Yobe State and the Deputy President is Ovie Omo-Agege from Delta State. The upper chambers' elections will be holding on the 13th of June and a new assembly will be formed.

In this interesting episode, Kore and Ope sat down to discuss the roles and functions of the senate. Let us know in the comments one function that surprised you and what you will love to see in the new chamber. Don't forget to subscribe.

Our hosts, Ope and Adeniyi had an engaging chat with Aliyu Bilal (PDP Campaign Director, Lagos) on how the General Elections fared.

Aliyu Bilal is a 23 year old Fulani hails from Adamawa state. He is a Public Relations Practitioner, a young political consultant and a PDP card carrying member. He is an associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Information and Strategy Management. Aliyu Bilal became involved in politics in 2016 immediately after his high school education. 

Bilal is a member of the PDP presidential youth wing and currently the Director Of Media And Strategic Communications For Dr Hassan Zamani Campaign Organisation. Hassan Zamani was the PDP flag bearer for the Lagos state house of assembly Eti/ Osa constituency 02 , in the just concluded Gubernatorial/ Assembly.

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We spoke to notable journalists', Stephen Kefas and Adaku Nwokoukwu who share their views about the role of journalism in Nigeria. Is it making progress and how has it evolved over  the years? Has journalism changed with the advent of new players such as David Hundeyin? Should media be censored due to the rise of fake news? Will the general elections hold in Nigeria?

We decided to have an inhouse episode with our coordinators and volunteers. In this episode, Kore talked with David Edet (Strategy & Data Coordinator), Opemipo (Team Coordinator, Diaspora) and Kolade (Research and Data Volunteer).

Khadijah Abdullahi Iya is the APGA Governorship Candidate in Niger State. She is the daughter of the late Audu Kwnagili, a prominent businessman and Politician in the old Northern region. She was the running mate of the presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria, Fela Durotoye.