The popular serene atmosphere of Jos, capital of Plateau State came under subtle pressure from two sources at the beginning of the third week of March 2026. As the first drizzle of rains for the year which came over the preceding weekend imposed a wave of heat over the city, the arrival in noticeably high numbers of grassroots democracy warriors in the town from across North Central Nigerian States...

The on-set of the twenty first century after the death of our Lord Jesus Christ also sign posts the era of man’s consternation at his own image that glares at him from the mirror mounted before him by God through the fingers of time. As I have pointed out in another conversational endeavour whose circulation plan is still in the works, the mirror in which the image of humanity has been reflected...

At the onset of the first few years of the twenty-first century AD, all developing nations caught napping in the doldrums of underdevelopment woke up to the rude reality of the fact that no nation or people can achieve development or harvest it from another without its foremost pre-requisite – technology- especially Communications Technology for a start. This is why a preponderance of Nigerians...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The slaughtering of hundreds of children and adults by the worst species of terrorists being dignified with the identity of “unknown gunmen” in three local government areas of Plateau State in Nigeria on 29th December 2023 should mark the arrival moment of which way the nation should go from henceforth. Taking into timely...

Gen. Mohammadu Buhari: Immediate past President, Federal Republic of Nigeria. MKO Abiola. Stadium, Abuja Nigeria, was venue of an all-star musical concert called The Renewed Hope Concert for most of the past week. Over forty musicians from diverse backgrounds and generals of the music industry thrilled the audiences every night. At the on-set of the concert, Seyi Tinubu and Ameer Shetima, sons of...

Wind Sound Africa Communications Limited, Publishers of AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT & CULTURE a periodic magazine and an Online newspaper, WIND SOUND AFRICA (www.windsoundafrica.com.ng) whose Teams have researched into and published more Climate Change induced lands/infrastructure degradation development-retarding problems of Nigeria arguably more than any other public or private organization in the nation...

Africa’s most populous nation went to the polls December 25 to vote for a new president to replace the current one, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd), whose second term tenure expires on the 25th May 2023 and therefore was not legible to be on the ballot paper during the election. Prior to this historic event, one of the most volatile issues that has often threatened the nation’s unity...

A fact that is available to even the least informed man or woman on the streets of Nigeria and those of most other African nations is the one that establishes that the country is the most populous black nation in the world. Arising from that undisputable fact is the reality of another one that stares us in the face, which is that there is no other African nation far or near the shores of the country...

By Barr Jeniffer Okoh with Field Reports The African Continent is presently engaged in multilateral efforts to perpetuate ideal democratic governance across the continent through various ideological indoctrination projects and other seemingly extreme measures like the recent creation of a sub-regional Intervention Force to protect elected national administrations from military coup de tats. Expectedly,...

The mercurial environment that conditions the Nigerian political phemament  not one that leaves her citizens, ordinary mortals, with the option of adopting any established political philosophy or using the footsteps of mentoring icons as guiding milestones on their chequered journeys on the nation’s political terrain. The preponderance of those who call the shots on the various political party...

Sen. David B.A. MarkSenator representing zone C Senatorial District of Benue State and Former Senate President Comrade Daniel Onjeh The Southern Zone of Benue state’s Senatorial electoral college, popularly known as zone C is home to a number of Nigeria’s Political Socrates. At the most precarious moments of Nigeria’s fourth republic democratic history, the men who stood up and danced...

In April 1961, when the 35th president of America, J. F. Kennedy, was called upon to address the American Association of Newspaper Publishers at their annual meeting, and he chose not to use a heading similar to the one above as the title of his talk, he said it was for the simple reason of the fact that every discerning minded American knew that there was a nation-building,- even if it was a no-love-lost-...

It is not yet clear to the eagle-eyed observer of the deep waters of Benue State politics, if the personality that has become the “source of hope” in the minds of stakeholders knows it yet. Dispassionate pundits who are familiar with the facts and figures that will always come to play, and in fact, determine the results of Benue State’s democratic elections in the nearest future are...