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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Last Flight to Johannesburg

Even people who rarely talk sports are showing support for the national team. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read Pastor E. A. Adeboye’s status update when Nigeria convincingly defeated Mali, booking a ticket to the finals; the first time since year 2000!

From Yahoo-Yahoo to kidneys for money?

This latest “kidney-for-money” bazaar by these young, mischievous ones sure continues to hammer the country’s image badly in the international system...

To The G 20 Member-States of the World…

As long as Africa’s denigration - mind-boggling exaggerations, inaccurate reporting, plain lies and insults are the CNN and other Western media policy on Africa - so long will the needed transnational co-operation between Europe and Africa suffer...

“Ara Eko, Ara Oke”: Lagos, Culture, and the Rest of Us

Never mind Wole Soyinka’s dissing of his own generation as a wasted one. In the nature of things, your generation always just happens to be the last best generation before whatever value systems or institutions you are discussing collapsed irredeemably, hence the tendency to dismiss the generation after you...

Kidnappers in Nigeria: Death Sentence for Treasury Looters?

The Nigerian senate on the 28th of September, 2017...

Naija Notes: Will an Igbo man ever rule Nigeria?

Until Igbo politicians stop acting funny and trusting the North much more than they have to, that which they seek will continue to elude them...

Probe The NDDC And Scrap It!

We know it as truth that in Africa, any time mothers decide to cry out on any issue, it is always difficult to deny them an ear...

A Creature of Spirit: A Review of Jeta Amata’s Amazing Grace

The film is a gem. You must see it. If you have, you must watch it again. It’s the best film out of Nigeria ever and there are none of the usual female leads...

Ndigbo: Their waning Economic Influence in Nigeria

Much as the Ibos cry over political alienation and marginalization by the Federal Government over the years, what has our collective leadership done to bring a creative turn around?

Ninety Garlands for Sam Amuka @ 90

The iconic publisher of Vanguard newspapers, Sam Amuka-Pemu, is...