The Northern Blog

Often times you see people with fantastic ideas with no technical skills and others with technical skills but lack the groundbreaking idea. This has proved to be a road block for many aspiring entrepreneurs, and thus the growth of their startup suffers significant setback. However, most people are willing to find people who share the same chemistry and common interests and also have complementary skills to help them scale their business. The task is still not…

Youth can be a creative force, a dynamic source of innovations, however Youth also face poverty, barriers to education, and limited employment prospects and opportunities. In the area of political participation, eligibility for national parliament starts at 25 years old or older. 1.65% of parliamentarians around the world are in their 20s and 11.87% are in their 30s. The average age of parliamentarians globally is 53 (50 years old for women parliamentarians). Young people between…

Code Pyramid is an enthusiastic group of software developers, graphic designers, web designers and other techies. It was formed by nerds Ahmed Idris, Mubarak Aminu and Aminu Bakori. The group hopes to create a friendly atmosphere of techies by encouraging , coaching and mentoring members. We grabbed a copy of the group’s manifesto which reads; OUR MISSION CodePyramid is simply an informal group of software developers, graphics designers, web designers, and other techies. It’s a…

The transparency hackathon was held last week at Colab, Kaduna. The hackathon was aimed at finding tech aided solutions to governance in Nigeria. It was organized by BudgIT in partnership with Open Alliance to address transparency issues and also bridge information gap in government. Open Alliance works on Open Government partnership in Nigeria. While BudgIT is a civic tech organization and a specialist in demystifying government finance expenditure for the everyday Nigerian. The event commenced…