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...

Just a Pant

Most blood transfused in our various clinics are gotten from paid donors and families of patients in need of blood. What does this say of us as citizens of this nation? We love money, and we are collectively selfish!

Climate Change: time to change tactics and themes

The sad reality of our common existence on a common platform makes it imperative to use the right terms, if only so that everyone really understands what is happening. That sad reality is that climate change is here...

Onitsha Needs and Deserves Environmental Facelift

Onitsha the commercial Mecca of Anambra State in Nigeria, the city that gave us Main Market, the largest market in Africa, has been neglected so much that it desperately cries for a facelift...

Zeroth strategy for waste oil disposal in Nigeria

Used oil or spent oil is a product of petroleum, produced during the process of fractional distillation. Due to the presence of the hydrogen carbon bond and hydro-carbon chains it poses a health danger to man and the ecosystem...

2009 World Aids Day: Nigeria’s Journey So Far

There are uncertainties and extensive inter-collegial disagreements over the first HIV/AIDS case in Nigeria but the fact remains that the virus is here, and is eating deep into our nation, way beyond what our governments are aware of...

I Stand On Existing Protocols

Nigeria, the sleeping giant of Africa and its leaders and privileged citizens are still mounting podiums and making speeches and addresses rather than getting our hands dirty by doing what is needful to turn the tide of underdevelopment in our country...

Saving Abuja’s Trees

Even though there has been a lot of money and effort put in by the Federal Capital Territory to green Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, activities of another federal government agency, the Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria  and other companies threaten the existence of the trees...

Climate Change Conspiracy against the African Child

The world’s decision-makers and decision-influencers are gearing up to confront the coming cataclysm of climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark this December 2009...

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The late Lamido and my father

With the death on March 13 of Aliyu Musdafa, the 11th Lamido of Adamawa, Nigeria strikes me as a slightly dimmer space. The death of this extraordinary Nigerian touched me – and my mother as well as four siblings – in a deeply personal way...

Poet of the People: Niyi Osundare

Poets from all over the world today do not...

Seasons of Settlements

Going by the conciliatory outcomes of this week, perhaps, before the week is out, Governor Oyinlola well set plans afoot to reconcile the Abiolas and the Abachas; the Ooni of Ife and the Alafin of Oyo; PDP and AC; Christians and Moslems; North and South...

Enough Is Enough – A Short Note To General Muhammadu Buhari

I read with concern your decision to contest the election of Governor Umar Ya'Ardua at the Presidential Election Tribunal as well as participate in peaceful anti-election Protest. Please think again..

Nigeria's Governors' Forum Election Saga: Echoes Of A Morally Bankrupt Political Entity

Ordinarily, who becomes the chairperson of a non-statutory organization like the Nigerian Governors' Forum should not evoke any public commentaries because it does not confer on who becomes the Chairperson any usufructuary benefits...

US-Africa Leaders Summit: In whose interest?

The Economist no doubt truly captured how suddenly Africa transformed from the ugliest girl no one wanted to associate with to now the most beautiful girl in town. Any man who ignores her presence does so at his peril...

Emeka Offor: Whose Front is He?

If he were American or European, he would be on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the world. He estimates his net worth at $3 billion, although a recent report puts his net worth at about $6 billion.  This former "Julius Berger truck driver" claims to have been a former petty contractor until fortune smiled at him...

An Expanded Conflict in The Niger Republic: Whose War is It?

Some people have asked me for my opinion regarding...

The Near “Great” Misadventure

The local police in Nigeria seems to have very little to offer in the way of help to those who have lost money to scams...

Obasanjo against Abacha – How Futile and Delusional a Comparison

Today, some Nigerians think fondly of Abacha. Is collective amnesia setting in? Wasn't this the man who, not too long ago, made our country a burning hell at night and a frigid wasteland in the daylight hours?