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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Voodoo Anambra, Voodoo Nigeria

Doctors seek the Shrines to conceive children; civil servants seek them for promotions; politicians for power; spinsters and housewives to find and retain husbands; professionals for success...

Why Iwu Failed

Everyone now knows that Iwu and his INEC were simply unprepared or unwilling to take Nigerians beyond the usual sad, discomforting stories that had attended past elections in the country...

What is wrong with the World? The Need for a World Peace Conference

I sense a fresh inspiration  that Godlessness, lack of unity and solidarity, internationalism, arrogance and the rule  by  the ideological fanatics who appropriate to themselves “knowledge” perpetual and eternal, are some  of the factors that have resulted in the state of fear and discord world-wide...

Let’s Rig the Olympics

The Paris2024 Olympic Games cannot be forgotten in a...

Bukola Saraki’s Amoral Political Life and the Gathering Tempest

People like Bukola Saraki, the hugely compromised and controversial...

Dreams Come True!

Nigeria will become the most desirable country to live in by 2025 and the most powerful nation on earth by 2040. Believe it and we will achieve it...

Notes On Adedibu's Brigandage

Adedibu was more honest about his mission of embezzlement: "Ladoja is too greedy. He was collecting N65 million as security vote every month. You know that governors don't account for security vote. He was to give me N15 million of that every month. He reneged. Later it was reduced to N10 million, yet he did not give me..."

The Nigerian Shame In London

Some years back, we were known for football entertainment and gradually toiling the path of Brazil. Today one thing synonymous to that name Nigeria is scam...

Wole Soyinka, Igbo Cyber-Discourse, and the Myth of the Good Yoruba

What Winterbottom and the ignorant Europeans in Arrow of God do to Ezeulu is exactly what some of Soyinka’s Igbo admirers online are doing to him! What part of Arrow of God have they not read? What on earth do they imagine Achebe is saying about the production of otherness?

Journalists on SSS radar…

Look at the predicament of the Nigerian-American columnist and professor who came home recently. The security people seized both his passports and asked him to report for an interrogation. When he showed up, the SSS made him understand that his name was on a watch list simply because the government of Umaru Yar’Adua did not like him...