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...

They Fly, We Die

Two recent conversations reminded me of the extent to which the lives of “ordinary” Nigerians—that is to say, most Nigerians—have been gravely debased. Let’s start...

Where is the Environment in our Elections?

On March 28th 2015, it is expected that Nigerians would troop out to elect a new president or continue to be managed according to...

Uniting Nigerian children to fight climate change

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has shown a well deserved approbation: He was vigilant in seeing the importance of children beyond their believed exclusive assignments of classroom and domestic chores...

Emphasis on Remedial Approach to the Neglect of Penal Technique Method in the Enforcement of Environmental Laws in Nigeria

The technology involved in extracting crude from oil wells, the process of refining, the myriad of pipes interlacing each other through which the refined oil are transported to various depots, the combustible nature of refined oil, the possibility of spill, are what make up-stream and down-stream activities hazardous to both animate and inanimate objects within a given environment...

In Nigeria, Government Doesn't Understand Climate Change

There is low level of awareness about climate change in Nigeria, and the way to present it to the public...

Food waste threatens the Environment

Almost everybody is crying of hunger in this country in recent times. Hardly is anyone thinking about the quantity of food that is being wasted everyday. This practice is becoming a threat to the environment...

Reviewing Amaechi’s Environmental Sanitation Policies

The appointment of Isobo Jack as the new environmental sanitation czar in Rivers State and Nnamdi Wokekoro showed the back door out of work, is a repositioning that all must praise Governor Chibuike Amaechi for...

Climate Change: Fears of flood in Rivers State

Rivers State, as a human community, cannot run away from climate change created by human activities. But this could be halted, as climate change is a global problem...

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Biafra Is Dead, Buried And No More!

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