Mbize: Rage of Red Earth (Stories, Songs on Landslide, Erosion in Igboland) by Chuka Nnabuife; Heinrich Boll Stiftung; 2011 The erosion menace in Southeast Nigeria is a twice-told story. …
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Environment & Health
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Romantic poetry is love for, and of nature and lovers of nature often write nature poems. Poetry as such was known as Romantic Poetry. That was the Romantic Age in …
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That the natural world is degraded from what it once was is indisputable. Our planet’s climate has constantly been changing over geological time, with significant fluctuations of global average temperatures. …
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Since water covers a vast majority of the Earth, it could be hard to imagine how it could ever be in short supply. However, freshwater – the stuff we drink, …
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The industrial hostilities between the Federal government of Nigeria, FGN, and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, seems to have come to an end. With that, academic activities revved …
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A clean, pure, healthy environment and atmospheric air or rather oxygen that we human beings take in on a daily basis plays an important role in the longevity and good …
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I had an experience over the Christmas holidays that I am yet to recover from, psychologically. My wife brought our children from Lagos to join me in Abuja for the …
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Among the states that Nigerians adjudged to have proactively managed the Covid 19 after it hit Nigeria in March 2020 was Edo. One of the first things the state government …
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This initiative conceptualises a post petroleum economy for Nigeria that is related to an energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources in Nigeria. The ground breaking research toward a …
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The Environmental Rights Action, ERA & Friends of the Earth Nigeria FoEN, has removed Nnimoh Bassey as chairman of its board. This followed resolutions taken at a General Assembly of …
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Umar Yahaya, 28, is an environment manager and toxicologist from Kano State. After he graduated from the Federal University in Dutse and served his fatherland in 2018, he began to …
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Plastics, Plastics Everywhere (Poetics of Environmentalism and the Paradox of Our Polymer Age) by Greg Mbajiorgu; Bookcraft, Ibadan, Nigeria; 2020; 68pp What took hold of my mind once Greg Mbajiorgu’s …
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At a time when Covid 19 has paralyzed all educational institutions and youth capacity building engagements the world over, the Environmental Rights Action, ERA, brought together over 150 children and …
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Benin City Nigeria…The Environmental Rights Action, ERA, has asked the Federal government of Nigeria to consider the restructuring of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, so that proper clean-up of …
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Title: No Clean Up, No JusticeAuthor: Godwin Uyi Ojo, ERA executive directorNumber of Pages: 39Publisher: Environmental Rights Action, ERAReviewer: Bob MajiriOghene Communications, Nigeria. Serious discussion concerning abstract concepts as ‘justice;’ …
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Prologue In the early 90s, he took the music industry by storm with hit singles like Madam, You Is the One and Say Me Well. Born as Olalekan Fadeyi, he …