About CEDDERT

Mission

The Centre for Democratic Development and Training is established to promote and advance scientific research and training for the purpose of providing immediate and long-term solutions to the problems of the democratic, community, and national, development of the people of Nigeria, the rest of Africa and the African Diaspora.

Objectives

The objectives:

i.	to conduct problem-oriented, and policy-related, scientific research, into the process of community and national development, in order to build self-reliance, and the ability of the people to promote and defend their national and democratic rights and their human dignity;
ii.	to conduct training, for all sections of the population, particularly political activists, political leaders and policy makers, including community leaders, political party organizers, trade unionists, local government chairpersons and councilors, and state and national legislators and executives, in order to enhance their knowledge, improve their skills, develop their commitment to democratic, community, and national development, and their capacity to successfully pursue it;
iii.	to identify, collect, recover and preserve, comprehensive, accurate and relevant data, and secondary and primary research material on all aspects of community and national development, for the use of its staff, trainees, associates and approved researchers;
iv.	to publish, on a regular basis, research bulletins, pamphlets, books, maps, drawings, journals, magazines and produce radio, television and computer programmes, for the purpose of disseminating the results of its research activities, and public lectures, workshops, seminars, and conferences, it shall conduct and organize on current issues of community and national development;
v.	to employ, obtain right to land, operate accounts, construct and operate offices, libraries, conference rooms, class t rooms, radio and television stations, printing presses, publishing houses, bookshops, video-shops, residences, laboratories; use equipment, and carry out all other activities in the pursuit of its aims and objectives;
vi.	to raise funds through private and public contributions and through investment and activities.

1.	The Election Violence: 1952-2002, February 2002
2.	Mr. President, Are You Serious About NEEDS? 2004
3.	The Example of the NEPU: 1950-1966, August 2000
4.	The Misrepresentation of Nigeria: 2000
5.	The Living Conditions of the Talakawa and the Shari’ah in Contemporary Nigeria. 2000
6.	Chief Bola Ige and the Destabilization of Nigeria, 1999
7.	Little New Light: Selected Historical Writings of Abdullahi Smith 1987
8.	The Nupe and the Origins and Evolution of the Yoruba c.11275-1984
9.	The Giant of A Man: Tribute to Professor Abdullahi Smith 1920-1984
10.	History and the Challenges to the people and politics of African in the 21^st Century, November 1999

1.	Human Rights Violations in Nigeria with Special Reference to the States of the Northwest and the Northeast zones. Abuja 2^nd October 2001.
2.	The Research Project on the Political and Administrative Context of Human Rights Violations in Nigeria. Abuja 2^nd October 2001.
3.	UNESCO/MOST International Research Project on the Economic and Social Transformations in Africa in the 1980s and the 1990s with special reference to the Illicit Drug Trafficking, France, April 1997.
4.	Establishment of Centre for Record Management and Policy Research for the Federal Capital Territory.

1.	UNESCO/CEDDERT Meeting of experts on Democratization, Peace Building and Conflict Resolution in Africa, Kongo Conference Hotel, 28^th - 30^th March, 1995.
2.	The International Seminar on the South in the Global Political Economy of Illicit Drugs, Kongo Conference Hotel, Zaria, 22^nd - 23^rd July, 1996.
3.	Nigeria and the Reform of the United Nations, Main Assembly Hall, ABU, Samaru, Zaria, 11^th June, 2005.