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...

One Year After Copenhagen: Nigeria and her climate troubles

Our people must be sensitized on the need to move from use of fire wood for cooking to other energy efficient cooking methods. That is where Non governmental organizations and energy research centers come in...

Highway Accidental Deaths and Emergency Medical Services

Issues of accidental deaths in Nigeria has for a long time been left unattended to by governments. We read, watch and hear about series of ghastly accidents in the media on a daily basis but to my knowledge, little has been done to improve emergency medical services...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (2)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (3)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (4)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (5)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

The World On The Heels Of Ecological Catastrophe

We have allowed technology and technological ingenuity to override our sense of moral restraint in our transaction with the natural world. Every day the global headlines are filled with portraits of how the engines of human civilization are bringing us all to the brink of annihilation...

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“Odabo o” Susanne Wenger, Adunni Olorisha

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The Mossad Affair: The Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko (2)

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Oyo Abductions And Our Illimitable Woes

We are all now in peril, and there’s no...