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...

Green Techniques

Climate change is real. There is no doubt that the earth is becoming warmer than it was. This is not a conspiracy theory. Most people you meet will tell you that there have been noticeable changes in the climatic conditions...

Rain Flood: The Port Harcourt Experience!

Daily surfeit of rain in the southern part of Nigeria has blighted a-yet-to-come dry season. An attached flood has again brought problems for householders in low-lying areas of the coastal cities, towns and villages...

Environmental Racism: Dumping Europe’s Toxic Wastes in Africa Other Poor Countries

Westerners know that toxic wastes are disasters waiting to explode. It is this realization of the magnitude of risks that have led to stringent regulation and control of hazardous materials in industrial societies...

Washing out West Africa’s coastal cities

Even though the Clean Development Mechanism, CDM, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, began three years ago in Kwale, Delta State, with the aim of mopping up all associated gas from oil prospecting communities that would otherwise be flared,  investigations reveal that apart from the gas flaring threat, there are other less known factors that exacerbate climate change, increasing the risk that West African cities close to the coast will soon be submerged...

To Copenhagen, We March

Last week, the Nigerian Ministry of Environment hosted a well-attended conference at Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Abuja. The conference brought together scientists, experts, the academia and civil society to discuss perspectives and prospects for Nigeria’s participation in December 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark...

The Status of Environmental Governance in the Nigerian Oil Gas Industry

Environmental governance does not only deal with the kinds of top-down mechanisms frequently used by government to ensure regulatory compliance. It includes actions taken by civil society groups, scientific community, businesses and the public, that can be used to improve environmental conditions...

GSM Telephony and Associated Hazards: Nigeria Says No To Precautionary Principle

There is currently considerable confusion over the health and safety issues relating to non-ionizing radiation emitted by GSM telephony base stations and handsets...

Still on Susan Wenger

When my cousin’s wife with her one-week due pregnancy developed some complications and was rushed to hospital, it was not the doctor that discharged her, it was her pastor. He prayed and asked if she had faith. Who would not answer yes? Like Jesus, he said pack up your mat and go. She too is died...

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From the manger of made-in-Nigeria Sharia came news a couple of weeks ago that some elites in that State have written a petition to the House of Assembly to protest the revocation of land allocated to them by the previous State government...

Apologies to the Past

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The Rise and Fall of Our Motherland

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Experts and ordinary Nigerians worry about how their foods and medicines are being packed by food processors...

NLNG Literature Prize: Can This Award Be Trusted?

Let’s not mince words about this, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Literature Prize, since it berthed on the peripheral of our literary landscape five years ago, has always worn the cloak of controversy and short on the credibility...

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The Case for Indecent Dressing

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Nigeria Limps On

After ten years of uninterrupted ‘democratic’ rule in Nigeria, many in and out of the country still wonder if anything has changed? Not a lot has really...