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...

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No Visible Alternative Leadership for 2007

Whether you agree or not, many Nigerians in the Diaspora have been exposed to a much more intelligent political discourse...

Governor Peter Obi and El Rufai: In Defense of Anambra Integrity

Nasir El Rufai, in his most recent article on Peter Obi and Anambra State, did not provide us with credible references or scholarly sources that validate the statistics he utilized. However, it was not difficult to find out his source which is the National Bureau of Statistics...

The Cable Thief

One day, late January, I came home and noticed my front door was unlocked. Another day, mid-February, I came home from work and noticed my back door was unlocked. A week later, I woke up in the middle of the night.  I thought I heard someone in the house...

Sycophancy and governance in Nigeria

This week, my ever curious eyes took a peep into the various arms of government in my dear country Nigeria.  And my eyes specifically picked up one of the most dangerous blight silently eating away our social, economic and political fabric. This is no other than sycophancy...

EU Did not Clear Obasanjo of Corruption

Amadeau Altafaj, who is the EC spokesman for Development, denied making any statements about Pres. Obasanjo's ownership, or lack thereof, of foreign bank accounts. He also denied commenting on the other African leaders regarding foreign bank accounts...

The Supreme Court’s Poor Judgment

The Judiciary as headed by the Supreme Court ought to have nullified or cancelled the elections of 2007, which everyone but everyone had termed patently flawed for non-compliance with the Electoral Laws...

Prosperity, Eternity (6): Between Holiness and ‘Prosperity’ Preaching

The so-called prosperity preachers hardly go into what qualifies a man to give unto God. They hardly tell us that God does not really need anything from the sinner but his soul...

Buhari’s Disappearing Presidency

President Muhammadu Buhari is dangerously close to leaving Nigerians...

Barack Obama and New American Diplomacy (3)

Obama's linking the slave trade experience with the holocaust, was inappropriate. The death of six million Jews was deplorable, but words cannot describe a horrendous trans-Atlantic movement of human beings for over many centuries!

Timipre Sylva: A Governor, His State and His People

It is generally assumed that however goes Bayelsa, so goes events in most other Ijaw communities and commune across the country. Because of this and other factors, the state has been under political and security microscope since its beginning in 1996...