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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Ibusa Union, London Branch: Problems and Prospect

Human nature and human relationships are buoyed with conflicts. We can never do without them otherwise human existence would be boring. But when some conflicts become so entrenched and seem to be dragging on for too long thereby acting as a cog in the wheel of progress...

Between Blacks and Whites: The Issue of Genetics!

Is it not safe therefore, gentlemen and ladies, for one to consciously conclude that the whites are indeed more superior than blacks in terms of reasoning power and general comportment?

Nigerian Elections: Some Early Warnings

Bomb warehouse in central Lagos, truckload of arms and ammunition in Jos, political violence in Nigeria has tripled as the election draws nearer, what could be going on?

Princewill’s Political Seriousness

In Igbo, we say that a child erroneously calls a male friend of his or her mother the concubine, forgetting that not all male friends to a woman are her concubine, and not all female friends to a man are his mistress...

Checking USA and UK’s spiteful comments against Jonathan on insecurity

Since the killings and bombings by the radical Islamic sect called Boko Haram intensified in the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, many people are counseling that there is a conspiracy theory against the president by northerners and some of their international collaborators...

Early Warning Based Peace Building: Panacea to Violent Conflicts

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance -Thomas Jefferson. The human...

End of the Ibori-Uduaghan siege in sight

Nigerians may not easily comprehend the theatre of absurdity that has been Delta State these past eleven years...

What Are You Thinking?

Don’t envy every rich man or anticipate being like all. Not all wealthy men should be role models,  because many of them acquired their wealth by infringing on the rights of  other people. It is not wealth when you debased the integrity of the other person to skyrocket...

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

“Well travelled visitors often say Ibadan is the most...

Billionaire House Helps

It’s become settled practice: every four years, INEC puts together an obscenely expensive show called “elections.” But the point of the bazaar is to enable the various political parties to exhibit their varying levels of versatility at rigging...