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 Unwritten Rules of a True Democracy

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The Black Consciousness Movement in South African Literature (2)

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An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua – 5

A coterie of the ruling elite, surprisingly not just in the North, where the Bala Na'Allahs were calling for a Final Solution, but elsewhere, talked about the fire and brimstone that the central government would unleash on the Niger Delta if the fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta do not accept the amnesty...

No Doubt, This House Has Collapsed!

Indeed, this house has collapsed. I do not envy the person who will take over from Obasanjo. The person will inherit an angry, hungry, impoverished and frustrated populace, wilfully plunged into unimaginable hardship by a regime that behaves as if it was  contracted to visit untold punishment on Nigerians...

Against campaigns dominated by wild fears

Little clouds of dust rise and hang on our...

Toward an Evaluation of the Educational and Sports Sectors in Nigeria

For the past two months, since returning from Nigeria in July after living in America for 30 years, I have been thinking and reflecting on my observations of how the educational and sports sectors work...

Osun guber: What if AMBO wins?

By Iyiola Oludotun ​As the pendulum of politics swings towards...

Superior Intelligences: How they influence Earth Men

Superior Intelligences rule the world. The not-so-intelligent people are victims, in many ways. The Creator may have reasons for not distributing intelligence equally to every creature...

Forever saved or damned: a choice!

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