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...

The Age of Stupid in Nigeria

Every day that this nation flares its gas, it blows about $4million. Juggle that number by 30 days and you get $120million...

The Environmental Effects Of Pharmaceuticals

Concerns about the possible effects of pharmaceuticals, their metabolites and other chemicals, including household products is developing into a high profile issue in Europe, the United States, Canada and other countries...

Trafficking and Dangerous Disposal of Hazardous Wastes in Nigeria: Tackling the Root Cause

Nigeria’s quest to put a halt to the reckless and indiscriminate dumping of wastes can only succeed if the government chooses to change its attitude of dangerous dumping of municipal wastes in unlined pits and water bodies...

Another victim of a failed state in Nigeria's killing fields

This is a country that eats its young and brilliant ones. It is not surprising the country is experiencing a "brain drain". Who will want to stay in a place that has become a "hell hole" for young and old alike, where the only happy group are the looters, rapists, murderers and the brazen thieves...

Managing and Using Forests in a Sustainable and Profitable Manner

A good forest policy should strike a balance between profitability and sustainably. In the light of this, forestry operation should be done in such a way as to avoid permanent adverse effects on soil and water...

Implementing The Nine Principles of a Sustainable Society: Can Nigerian Government Deliver?

Nigeria is one of the major sources of oil & gas related atmospheric pollution, which contribute significantly to global warming and also pose a threat to local ecology and public health. There is need for the Nigerian government to build practical strategies for sustainable living and empowerment of local citizens...

An Instrument for Managing the Social Consequences of Development

The continued impoverishment of the oil-bearing communities of the Nigeria’s Niger Delta is an indication of a failed Social Impact Assessment system in Nigeria...

When I Shook Hands With Bill Gates In Abuja

For those who are in doubt, I actually shook hands with Bill Gates because I wanted to know if his fingers were different from mine...

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When the Devil is not to Blame!

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Nigeria's education sector and UNESCO's report

The Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, in Nigeria, Professor Hassana Alidou, at a recent launch of the Education For All, EFA, Global Monitoring Report, GMR, said that Nigeria has some of the worst education indicators in the world...

Parachutes Everywhere but None to Stem the Plunge of the Naira

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

Spill Baby Spill: Of Private Profits, Public Burdens and Liability?

It is good thing that BP is suffering from the consequences of its environmental ineptitude. BP shares are being battered in American and European stock exchanges, and even amidst this pummeling, BP is declaring billion Dollars in dividends for shareholders and spending millions on public relations advertising while the house is on fire...

The World Must Embrace Sociocracy

The decline of civilization world-wide is a result of...

Hair from Hong Kong Bleached Skin Favored by Black Men?

What does our unwillingness to retain our identity say about us? What does it this say about our state of mind and our sense of selves?

Kibaki Like Obasanjo, Kenyans Unlike Nigerians

Politics and politicians have conspired lately to imperil the fortunes of a hitherto peaceful Kenya. The 'Uhuru' paradise is being desecrated! Destroyed!

Essays From Exile: The Skid Screed

The West must learn a lesson that my American bank knows too well and it is this: When you give a military junta a loan, it is analogous to giving a loan to a thief who has stolen my identity. Just as I am protected by the laws of the land, the beautiful people of Africa should be protected from the crimes of the gun-toting thieves and their Western accomplices...

Weeping Sentiments on Sale of Edo Library & Agric Ministry

I was dismayed when l read about the outright...