ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS REPORT OF CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED  LAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEGRADATION ENVIRONMETAL CRISIS IN BWARI AREA COUNCIL, FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA, NIGERIA. Written By Matthew Owoicho Abah-Enyi, assisted by Field Researchers Mohammed Aliyu, Elizabeth Ogwuche, The Area Council’s representative, Engr Daniel Kagarko and Economic Impact Analysts.

Bwari Area Council presides over one of the six Councils which land areas combine to make up the total land area occupied by the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. The Area Council plays host to a large fraction of the civil service population in the Territory. More than 85 percent of residents of the Area Council, including the indigenous people, rely on their land and other economic infrastructure...

Carbon Credit Demystification Project: AFRICAN CLIMATE SCHOLARS UNVEIL CONTINENT’S CARBON MARKET OUTLOOK 2025.

Writhing from years of developed nations volt faces on Climate Change effects mitigation plans like the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement, African scholars have unveiled synergized recommendations aimed towards achieving long-term  Climate Actions for the continent. This momencious convergence of thoughts were unloaded on the tables at the virtual launch of Carbon Market Outlook for 2025, a publication...

BWARI AREA COUNCIL

WHERE CLIMATE CHANGE AIDED LAND/INFRASTRUCTURE DEGRADATION, RETARDS THE PEOPLE AND LEADERSHIP’S WILL-POWER FOR DESERVED DEVELOPMENT Nyelsom Wike, Hon. Minister FCT While the fact of history has come to terms with the fact that Abuja City is the Unity Capital of Africa’s most populated nation, Nigeria, Bwari Area Council wears the unique toga of playing hosts to the most dignifying aspects...

GREAT CAUTION, CORRECTION OF IDENTITY “MISTAKE” AND LOYALTY TO THE WILL OF GOD ARE OUR AMBITIONS NOW AND BEYOND 2023 -Acting Bassa Paramount Ruler, Development Association President– By Abah Matthew Abah-Enyi (windsoundafrica@gmail.com)

The present state of affairs in Nigeria, in which individual and collective safety are heavily threatened by prevailing national security problems, challenging market fluidity as a result of economic debacles at the approach of the 2023 election year, all leaders at the political, traditional, religious and other circular levels are necessarily called upon to provide advisory directions for peoples...

BENUE GROUP ON THE PLATEAU CONFER AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE ON MEMBERS, THANK GOD FOR 2021. By Abah Matthew Abah-Enyi

Plateau State based members of Ochetoha K’Idoma, the socio-cultural elite group that stands up to the developmental challenges of Idoma land and the Nigerian Nation played hosts to members of the public and awarded honors to a select number of the group  while thanking God for the year 2021 at the Millennium Village Garden, Rayfield, Jos, 29th January 2022. Mr. JohnMary Idoko, OKIJ Chairman,...

FUHSO, A SYMBOL OF RECOMPENSE FOR A RESILIENT NATIONALITY:

          Matters Arising For The “Hosts”And The future “Publics”               By Abah Matthew Abah-Enyi (windsoundafrica@gmail.com.) At the onset of Africa’s nationalities’ survival struggles, notable groups ordained with varied values, numerical...

BENUE COMMUNITY GIVES KUDOS TO LOWER BENUE RIVER BASIN DEV. AUTHORITY

By Abah Matthew Abah-Enyi (windsoundafrica@gmail.com) Ugbugbu Community, a densly populated agrarian  community of about ten villages in Owukpa district of Obadigbo Local Government Area of Benue State is in jubilant dispensation and may soon re-ecko the tangible  gratitude and well wishes of their leaders and dwellers to the Managing Director and the entire Management Staff of Lower Benue River...

NIGERIAN GREAT GREEN WALL BATTLE AGAINST DESERTIFICATION MOVES TO “ADANCE” LEVEL AT STAKEHOLDERS STRATEGY MEETING. By Matthew O. Abah-Enyi

The Multi-purpose Hall of Alim Royal Hotel and Suits, Abuja, was full of Strategic Combatants of desertification, whose attires of civilian traditional wears and suits were deceptive in view of the combat duties they were gathered to perfect. It was the first day of a two-day brainstorming session of the National Alliance for Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative(GGWSS) organized by...

CLIMATE CHANGE: THE SUNNY SIDE OF CORRUPTION By Matthew Abah-Enyi

  Antonio Guterres: The ninth and incumbent United Nations Secretary General President Donald Trump of USA Next to the universal faith-based belief amongst most religious adherents that life on earth istransient and that what befalls man here-after is relatable to his here-and-now, the consensus on the threat Climate Change, a reaction to Global Warming, poses to the totality of living organism on...

FACT-BASED LINK BETWEEN LAND DEGRADATION AND NATIONAL SECRURITY – BAUCHI STATE IN A BATTLE AGAINST DERSETIFICATION – By: Matthew Abah-Enyi with reports from researchers in the fields

“When land degradation reaches a level, it seriously threatens people’s livelihoods, it can turn into a security issue. Data from 2007 show that 80% of major armed conflicts affecting society occurred in vulnerable dry ecosystems”, Ms Monique Barbut Executive Secretary UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Antonio Guterres: The ninth and incumbent United Nations Secretary General Bauchi state...

STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT ON NASARAWA STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS. THE SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF LAND DEGRADATION

One of the economic and historical challenges Nigeria has continued to contend with since the onset of the twenty-first century is the one that presents itself in the form of National Security problems. It is both economic and historical because there cannot be any form of economic development without a firm national security system that can motivate wholesome national economic planning and implementation...

LANGTANG SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA’S LAND DEGRADATION PROFILE Up-dated in April 2015

Hon Chairman, Hon Bendel Mancwat Domfa in long-term battle to uplift the people of the L.G.A Langtang-South Local Government Area of Plateau state, North-Central Nigeria is one of the Council Areas in the state where the quests for viable land resources for human habitation and farming activities is as important as life itself. Competition for land space has led to security-threatening skirmishes that...

A CLARION CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA

  Environmental Degradation as an Economic Albatross with National Security?Implications A CLARION CALL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA ENUGU STATE COMPONENT Research Team led, and report written by Matthew Abah When the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the first Earth Summit, took place in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in June 1992, Development...

IDOMA ELITE GROUP HONORS ACHIEVERS

By Ada Abah The Idoma Forum, Jos, a branch of the well-known development-focused Idoma National Forum on Saturday, 17th November, rolled  out the red carpets for those it views as heroes of development in Idoma land in particular and Nigeria in general as they were honored with Awards of Excellence as symbols of recognition and encouragements for their invaluable contributions to national development....

THE NIGERIAN GREAT GREEN WALL: END OF THE ENDLESS WAITING?

By Abah Matthew Abah-Eny   Twelve years ago, the United Nations Agencies responsible for combating desertification organized a Special Conference in Germany. Central on the conference’s Agenda list was the economic strangulation that stared Nigeria and Niger republic in the faces as a result of their fast-worsening desertification problems. When it became time for Nigeria to present its...