7 February 2010
LightUpNigeria – 2009 in Retrospect
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Light Up Nigeria had events around the world in 2009
LightUpNigeria is a movement advocating for constant electric power to Nigerian homes and businesses. We also seek to engage citizens who’s responsibility it is not only to continue to demand a sustainable solution to the power problem but to ensure that investments in the power sector do not fall prey to sabotage or corruption.
In 2009 we all embarked on a mission to advocate for a change in government policy to increase the power input into the national grid and make a sustainable uninterrupted power supply environment available.
You made your voices heard on twitter, and on the about 30K strong facebook group. The Light Up Nigeria website has to date hundreds of registered users and we hope more people will sign up in the new year. We intend to send out regular newsletters to every member in 2010 as we continue to push for uninterrupted power.
In 2009 we recorded a few notable milestones:
- We set up our website – http://www.lightupnigeria.org
- We hosted our first town hall meeting in Abuja – Attended by 25 people.
- We were featured in an article on America.gov as a citizen-led movement with great chances of success.
- We had local press coverage of our efforts in Leadership, 234Next and Thisday (all national newspapers) as well as Silverbird Television, Nigezie and ITV.
- We had Simultaneous events in 4 cities around the world during the Nigerian Independence day period – Lagos, Abuja, Washington, London.
- Light Up Nigeria was featured on CNN as a full segment in the October edition of CNN iReport and BackStory.
- CNN created an iReport Assignment Desk for #Lightupnigeria. Users and members can upload lightupnigeria related videos and pictures here: http://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?topicId=344451
- Multiple radio and TV interviews
- Two nominations for the Future Awards – Team of the year and Best Use of Advocacy. Visit http://www.thefuturenigeria.com/Nominee2/ , and http://www.thefuturenigeria.com/Nominee19/ .
Once again, we say thank you to each and every person who has been part of the movement in 2009, you are appreciated. Let us all double our efforts in the New Year and continue to speak out and be heard.
