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...

Of New York City and Ibadan City: Unusual Parallels and other matters (2)

Some other famous schools in Ibadan include Saint Anne's School, the oldest Girls secondary School In Ibadan which turns 150 years this year, having...

Of New York City and Ibadan City: Unusual Parallels and other Matters

“Well travelled visitors often say Ibadan is the most genuinely African  City”, so revealed William Borders in The New York  times on December 25,...

The Wetland

The Wetland is a Wealth land. The Wetland is the boundary between a water body and the land, giving nothing but comfort and great services...

Civil Society Group Commiserates with Kwara State Flood Victims

Civil society group, Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), has expressed its sympathy for the victims of the recent flooding in Okekere, Oloje, Ode...

This Phase Shall Pass

We live in a world that is governed by laws; in order to enjoy the beauty, glamour, splendor and the luxury of the planet...

Encounter with Dirty Fuel

If there are about 20 persons in Nigeria today who should know the deadly impact of the importation of Dirty Fuels to West Africa,...

ECOWAS EU Energy Wars

I have been reading former Secretary General of the OPEC Abdalla Salem El-Badri’s interesting piece, Security of energy supplies inextricably linked with demand. That...

Before the Marrakech Accord: why were we silent?

In the days before the Climate Change Conference COPP 22, lovers of our home the earth went to town soliciting support for a 50%...

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Gen Obasanjo: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

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Environmental Hazards Management: The Role of Stakeholders

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Acting on the advice of my lawyers, I don’t take lunch to work anymore. I do miss chomping on cow foot, ox tail and stockfish at lunch time. I don’t know what it is about the fragrance of stockfish that drives ordinarily reasonable Americans insane…

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To Nigerians, that the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has been dethroned is incontrovertibly...

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The Ruler-for-Life Syndrome in the Third World and the Danger of a Protracted Conflict in Libya (2)

The purpose of this write up is to briefly explore the ruler-for-life syndrome among leaders of Third World countries and the issue of whether NATO’s military intervention in the Libyan civil war is contributing to the elongation of the conflict rather than shortening it...

How Decisive Monetary Policy Is Powering Nigeria’s Economic Resilience and Growth

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Bode George, God, and a Priest

Bode George, ex-military man and ex-chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, left Kirikiri prison last Saturday – having served a two-year sentence for corruption and earned the addition of ex-convict to his CV. From prison, Mr. George headed straight for the Cathedral Church of Christ in Marina, Lagos...

My Guru Tam Fiofori Departs

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