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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Ogun State, Politics, and the 2026 World Cup!

These are politically crazy times in Nigeria. Voluntarily, or not,...

Lekki-Epe Expressway Toll Palaver– government versus people

The raging controversy over the erection and collection of tolls on the yet-to-be completed Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos State, Nigeria is a classic example of the consequences of dearth of communication between the government and the governed...

The Day Fugar Stood Still for Prof. Eshiemokhai

Recently, Fugar Community stood still for Professor Emmanuel Omoh Eshiemokhai to hear the news he had to break. Prior to this, there was ongoing information that a University was proposed for Fugar...

Sports and Politics

There are not too many endeavours that exert stronger...

Re: The Pathetic Delusion of Yinka Odumakin

Dear Mr. Yinka Odumakin, I refer you to a publication...

In the hands of the Nigeria police

What we can do is to raise our voices to a crescendo of resistance; speaking out against every form of police irresponsibility, abuse of power and brutality. We cannot subsist on a repast of police violence every day...

Encounter With The Paralytic Preacher!

It was a little after 3.30 am when the host pastor introduced a special guest preacher to mount the pulpit. The pastor in question was in wheel-chair, a disabled man of God...

Mobile Phones Efficacy: Do Nigerians Comply?

The mobile phone has become a part of a lot of Nigerian people’s lives, though it might still be a source of irritation, especially if you have to sit beside a continuously jabbering person on the bus for 30 minutes...

Parachutes Everywhere but None to Stem the Plunge of the Naira

The parachute has always featured in the Nigerian story....

What does Obama mean to Nigeria?

At the onset of the presidential debates between the Republicans and Democrats, I found most Nigerians still making the same mistakes we made in 2008, when the enigma that was Obama reared its enigmatic head...