Listening to the radio in Plateau State in the 90s and early 2000s, especially on Saturday and Sunday mornings, was something of a tradition for many addicts. Weekends proved to be a mini reunion as friends and family members gathered around their radio sets to listen to one man who made radio more of a […]
It is not debatable that a lot of people on the Plateau are not aware that there is an official Plateau State Anthem, which was composed by one of the state’s finest music artists, Daps Dalyop Gwom, and was officially adopted by the government on February 3rd, 2023. The Plateau Anthem is a unifying song
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In the history of traditional folklore music in Nigeria, no singer, past or present, could hold a torch to Dan Maraya Jos, “The Orphan of Jos,” because he was so good with the use of his special brand of Kuntigi, a small, single-stringed lute, while churning out his music that many often wondered if he
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