Environment

French Court Ruling against TotalEnergies’ “Net Zero” Claim and Lessons for other IOCs

By Innocent Edemhanria On 23 October 2025 a Paris civil court found that TotalEnergies made “misleading commercial practices” by advertising ambitions such as being “carbon...

Bracing up to another phase of the Ogoni Struggle

By Innocent Edemhanria Ogoniland, located in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, is home to the Ogoni people, who have long suffered the consequences of oil exploitation. Since...

President Tinubu Must Avert A Sahara Energy War on Ogoni

The unfortunate story of the Ogoni repression has too many instances of avoidable mistakes. The first was the failure of the Nigerian government to...

Emergency Preparedness Plan in Local Communities: The Role of Stakeholders

The transport of dangerous goods within communities is increasing.  The demands for improved efficiency and increased capacity often require use of dangerous processes and substances to boost production...

The Environmental Impact Assessment Practice In Nigeria: The Journey So Far

It is not in doubt that the flagrant violation of environmental protection laws pervading the oil exploration and production activities is primarily responsible for the harmful impacts affecting the environment, public health and property in the Niger Delta region...

Biofuels in Nigeria: Ensuring a Cautionary Approach

The biofuels production in Nigeria utilizing food crops, or cultivated on high-value land and cleared forest will impact negatively on environmental quality...

Lagos Gas and Noise War!

What I visited Ikoyi, supposedly an exclusive area for the nouveau rich, an acrid stench pervades, and particularly at the Keffi and Awolowo Roads...

Dangerous Ships!

Arrested and abandoned ships, which are rotting away at the defence jetty at CMS, pose an environmental as well as health risk to the Nigerians who conduct their businesses at that vicinity...

A Super-Charged Nation

Do Nigerian men really walk about packing a permanent hard on as the image in one of the energy drink brands suggests or is it the women that are leading them on...

Don't miss

Goat Meat Made In America

If you're really desperate to locate a Nigerian in the Washington area, hang around the African Food Farmers' Market...

What Will You Do Or Say?

You've been passing yourself of as an intellectual busybody, venturing opinion on this and that, and on matters that sometimes do not concern you. You rub politicians' noses with your satire and hope to get away with it.  And then out of the blues, CNN invites you to come and discuss the matter...

An Open Letter To The One I Love

In the perspective of this letter, I know that I love you. This is true. But you do not know. You would be a good seed to sow in a land, for future cosmic ages, but the story now is not sugarcoated...

Behold, The $ Billionaires Club!

The richest men and women list showed clearly that the rest of the world is making some progress economically and socially breaking poverty barriers and conquering wealth frontiers…

Why I suspect Aliero joined PDP

Nigeria's political history cannot be taken as complete without a reference to its history of political party decamping...

Living The Incarnated Life

Truly, God and humanity are waiting and watching how I would express God's kind of love, his values and worldview through my writings, words, actions, gestures, intentions...

…And to my sisters too!

You stand a very good chance of getting a lot of things done better and faster if your mother, your wife and your sister are favourably disposed towards you...

Help! A Facebook Stalker Threatens To Eat Me Like Ndomie

To salvage my ebbing ego, I became a reluctant conscript into the platoon of online glory seekers called Facebookers. To many starry-eyed and bewitched fame seekers, Facebook is a hot platform. To me it is over-rated, over-bearing, intrusive, gossipy, divisive, controlling, thought numbing, marketing-oriented, immoral, crowded and addictive...

America Is Friend and Ally of Dictators and Tyrants Worldwide

President Barack Obama it was, who once stated that Africa needs strong institutions and not strong men. But now we know these statements are mere deep end platitudes, in view of the fact that America, Israel and Europe prefer strong man, dictator and tyrant president for life Hosni Mubarak of Egypt...

A Questionable and Objectionable New World Order

As for all those nations and opinion-makers who are silent as the American White House and President Bush bring about untold chaos, may your place in hell be the hottest...