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...

Renewable Energy Development: ERA hunts youths for sustainable Development

Umar Yahaya, 28, is an environment manager and toxicologist from Kano State. After he graduated from the Federal University in Dutse and served his...

It’s A Plastic World

Plastics, Plastics Everywhere (Poetics of Environmentalism and the Paradox of Our Polymer Age) by Greg Mbajiorgu; Bookcraft, Ibadan, Nigeria; 2020; 68pp What took hold of...

From Extraction to Education, ERA Empowers Niger Delta Youth

At a time when Covid 19 has paralyzed all educational institutions and youth capacity building engagements the world over, the Environmental Rights Action, ERA,...

Restructure HYPREP For Proper Ogoni Clean Up, ERA Urges FG

Benin City Nigeria…The Environmental Rights Action, ERA, has asked the Federal government of Nigeria to consider the restructuring of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project,...

Justice Delayed and Denied: A Review of ‘No Clean Up, No Justice’

Title: No Clean Up, No JusticeAuthor: Godwin Uyi Ojo, ERA executive directorNumber of Pages: 39Publisher: Environmental Rights Action, ERAReviewer: Bob MajiriOghene Communications, Nigeria. Serious discussion...

Of Off-Cue Presidential Broadcasts

Many of the people who clamored for President Buhari to address Nigerians on the Covid 19 pandemic did so apparently because of what the...

Will Nigerians Soon Wipe Out Each Other?

I know that the dominant health topic now is Coronavirus (or, if you like, Chinese Virus), but I feel compelled to draw attention to...

Will Nigeria Survive the Climate Challenge?

Numbers are eternally fixed. Two is two and five is five. Two is not five and five is not two. Their combinations often produce...

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Farewell to OGD

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