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...

Pathways to Ecosystem Restoration in Nigeria

By Prof Gideon Emelue   Ecosystem refers to a dynamic relationship involving a community or group of living organisms interacting with one another in a specific...

The Rage of Mbize Erosion in Southeast Nigeria

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...

Art is Tree

Romantic poetry is love for, and of nature and lovers of nature often write nature poems. Poetry as such was known as Romantic Poetry....

Climate Change: The End Time Myth

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...

Disastrous Global Effects of Water Scarcity

Since water covers a vast majority of the Earth, it could be hard to imagine how it could ever be in short supply. However,...

Rivers State: Soot and the Dangers of its Emission, a Call for Action

A clean, pure, healthy environment and atmospheric air or rather oxygen that we human beings take in on a daily basis plays an important...

Toward A Post Petroleum Economy for Nigeria

This initiative conceptualises a post petroleum economy for Nigeria that is related to an energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources in...

ERA Removes Nnimmo Bassey, Appoints New Board

The Environmental Rights Action, ERA & Friends of the Earth Nigeria FoEN, has removed Nnimoh Bassey as chairman of its board. This followed resolutions...

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The Story of Sex in the Nigerian Community

Women in Nigeria are beginning to find their place and their voice in a society that was for so long dismissive of their feelings and concerns and their sexual needs. In a society where men thought it was their birthright, a sort of entitlement to have 2 or 4 or as many sexual partners as possible now find that women are now demanding...

Oyenusi, Anini and Obasanjo: What’s the Difference?

As things stand today, there is not much difference between the dealings of Aso Rock and the dealings of street urchins who use force or the threat of force to get things done. What difference is there between what Oyenusi and Anini did and what the presidency has been doing?

Popular Myths and Misconceptions about Nigeria

Up until very recently, some of the myths Nigerians wallowed in included the idea that Nigerians had nothing to do with international terrorism. Abdul Mutallab’s 2009 christmas day stunt jettisoned such myth, putting Nigeria on the terror list with full flare...

No Amnesty, No Surrender: Only Equity and Good Governance

No one can guarantee the Nigerian people and the Nigerian state peace, security and stability insofar as the Niger Delta crisis is concerned. No one! Not even the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta...

The Last Man Standing

Libya is in crises. Saif al-Islam Ghaddafi is about his business - the obedient son of a sit tight dictator – defending his nation's honor and right to sovereignty. Out of the blue reports and as yet unproven, allege that Saif Ghaddafi plagiarized some parts of his doctoral thesis without attribution...

They Call Me A Fag…But Am I Really Gay?

A cult of boys who grew up into men overnight. A group of boys whose psyche and sexuality has become transformed. Angry at other men, and abhorrers of women but lustful of some men. A strange world that I found myself in...

Football As A Religion In Nigeria

Nothing excites and unifies Nigerians like football, especially when...

Ibru, Soyinka, Maskin, Others Advocate Need for Human Capital Development In Nigeria

The need for government to introduce interventionist strategies aimed at developing human capital in Nigeria was the high point of discussions at the 2008 Oceanic Bank Global Leaders Forum...

Strange Things Have Happened In Nigeria

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...

The Succession of Asiwaju Tinubu, President-Elect

When Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is sworn in as President...