Author Biographies

International journalist, Strategic Media and Communications consultant and analyst of African affairs by International News Channels. Anchor and producer at Arise News and Classic FM in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. The publisher of gatekeepersnews.com. With an over two decades long career in journalism spanning radio, television, and digital media, the researcher has covered major elections in Nigeria and Africa from 2003 to date.
Dr. SOKAN-ADEAGA Adewale Allen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Health Science, at Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Nigeria. He obtained his Doctoral degree (PhD) in Public Health with a special interest in Environmental Health from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria in 2021. He serves as reviewer for many reputable journals, notably Reviews on Environmental Health (De Gruyter), Journal of Public Health Research (SAGE), and Biodiversity International Journal. He serves as an Editorial Board member of Trends in Medical Research, Science International.  His areas of interest include Public Health, Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA), Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Biofuels and Climate Change Studies. He has to his credit over thirty-five publications in peer-reviewed journals, three (3) book chapters and co-authored a book titled ‘Evaluation of bioethanol potentials of selected lignocellulosic wastes” published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. He serves as a reviewer for many reputable journals namely Reviews on Environmental Health (De Gruyter), Journal of Public Health Research (SAGE), and Biodiversity International Journal. Currently, he serves as an Editorial Board member of Trends in Medical Research, Science International.  His areas of interest include Public Health, Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA), Environmental Management and Pollution Control, Biofuels and Climate Change Studies.
Habib Adam is a Performance Engineer/Chaplain in Vienna, Austria. He is also a member of the board of directors at Al-Azhariya Islamic School, Ghana. He has a BSc. in computer science (Information and Communication Systems and Services) and an MSc in Telecommunication and Internet technologies. Additionally, he is a qualified hospital chaplain from the University of Vienna, Postgraduate Centre.
I am a nurse and volunteering as a hospital chaplain in Vienna, Austria. My research aims to improve the quality of life through interdisciplinary and integrative mental health research. I am specifically interested in exploring the dynamic nexus of interventions integrating mindfulness, self-compassion, and faith-based (R/S) interventions into mental healthcare across diverse settings. I am open to research collaborations.
Yasuhiro Kotera is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. Current research interests include ikigai, self-compassion, intrinsic motivation, and cross-cultural psychology. I use both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore these interests. I am currently working on intervention studies and cross-cultural studies to see the effects of those variables on mental health. As a father of newly-born triplets, I am also exploring the experience of triplets' parents cross-culturally.
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