Pankshin Meets the Jos Solar Mini-Grid I was in Pankshin the day Governor Caleb Mutfwang flagged off the project. Joy filled the air. Pankshin has struggled with electricity for years. That day, hope arrived through a Jos solar mini-grid built to serve the community for good. It’s a 1.5 MW system, backed by a 2 […]
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Drive through Atiku Street today and you may see okada riders dodging potholes, small shops spilling onto the road, and houses built wherever there is space. Now, imagine that same road in twenty years, wide and paved, with proper drainage and streetlights guiding traffic at night. That is the picture Plateau State wants you to hold
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If you’ve driven past Old Government House Junction lately, you may have noticed something new watching the road. A CCTV camera. A quiet sign that security in Plateau State is changing. However, for months, residents have been aware of a plan to install 5,000 AI-powered cameras across the state. Many assumed nothing had actually happened.
Most people think they already know Jos. They know the traffic around Terminus. They know the roads they drive every day, the same junctions, the same faces. Seldom does anyone stop to notice that every evening, the city quietly puts on one of the best sunset views in the country, most residents walk past it without looking
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A carved wooden stool sits quietly behind glass. Nearby, a small clay head with almond-shaped eyes stares out at nothing in particular, calm, ancient, and completely unaware of how famous it has become around the world. This is the Jos Museum, and most people who drive past its gates every day have no idea what
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Are you among the many that think Jos goes quiet once the sun sets? Do you only see Jos as a city with cool weather, hills, and an early-to-bed habbit? Spend an evenings here, and you’ll find that assumption fall apart fast. Jos nightlife may not be loud like it is in Abuja, Lagos and Portharcourt but guess what, it doesn’t have to
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While hiking through Pankshin, I once ran into a herder. I knew him back in Wamba, Nasarawa State. Curious, I asked what brought him all the way to Plateau State. He told me something simple but powerful. Something that pushed me towards animal farming: Plateau has the best grass for his cattle, and the best
Lot Sunday was living in Lagos when he decided to build a ticket -selling and Event Management App. Most people in his position would have stayed there, close to clients, investors, and the noise of Nigeria’s biggest tech scene. Instead, he came home to Jos and locked in for seven months, building an event app
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Every morning, I walk down to the lakeside near Rayfield Resort for a few quiet minutes of sun gazing and meditation. Most visitors see a calm, beautiful lake. I see something else. That lake is a crater, dug generations ago during the era of tin mining in Jos, and standing at its edge always feels
Long before Lagos became synonymous with Nollywood, there was a quieter, cooler city already doing the work. Jos was Nigeria’s Film Capital before the world knew to call it that — a place where television, film, and talent were being shaped decades before anyone coined the word “Nollywood.” If you grew up here, you already
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