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...

One Year After Copenhagen: Nigeria and her climate troubles

Our people must be sensitized on the need to move from use of fire wood for cooking to other energy efficient cooking methods. That is where Non governmental organizations and energy research centers come in...

Highway Accidental Deaths and Emergency Medical Services

Issues of accidental deaths in Nigeria has for a long time been left unattended to by governments. We read, watch and hear about series of ghastly accidents in the media on a daily basis but to my knowledge, little has been done to improve emergency medical services...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (2)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (3)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (4)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil (5)

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

Improper Abandonement Of Oil

Improperly abandoned oil wells, improperly abandoned facilities, and abandoned oil sumps are all potential sources of safety hazards. Prior to current abandonment procedures, oil wells were cut off below ground and capped...

The World On The Heels Of Ecological Catastrophe

We have allowed technology and technological ingenuity to override our sense of moral restraint in our transaction with the natural world. Every day the global headlines are filled with portraits of how the engines of human civilization are bringing us all to the brink of annihilation...

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What is wrong with the World? The Need for a World Peace Conference

I sense a fresh inspiration  that Godlessness, lack of unity and solidarity, internationalism, arrogance and the rule  by  the ideological fanatics who appropriate to themselves “knowledge” perpetual and eternal, are some  of the factors that have resulted in the state of fear and discord world-wide...

In Defense Of The Critic

I rather feel that Paul Adujie hasn’t really been receiving a fair treatment, because some of the attacks on him have been malicious, as if calculated to run the brother out of cyberspace. I do feel for the man. It’s as if all the anger and frustration with some of our corrupt leaders are being taken out on him anytime he pens an essay...

Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961

It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a notorious “slave depot” in 1851 or annexed it in 1861 because “the permanent occupation of this important point in the Bight of Benin is indispensable to the complete suppression of the slave trade..."

Reverse Migration: Time To Go Home

After almost 50 years of independence, and travelling to all places to acquire knowledge, education, experience, wealth, renown, etc, let us start translating all these virtues into progress and development for our beloved country...

Can You Cope With A Long-Distance Relationship?

There are two kinds of relationships we talk about: those who are married, and those who've made a commitment to each other to love and to hold but circumstances make it difficult for them to physically have and hold...

Empowerment Meets Militancy: Commissioner, TV Host and Four Germans Held Hostage

I tried to find out from the protesting militants the reason behind the anger. I am ashamed to write that they said they were angry that after the training, the government did not pay them for "wasting" three months learning. As the destruction and riot continued, the Empowerment Support Initiative and the NDDC sent a negotiating team who even went as far as offering the irate youths fifty thousand Naira each...

Federal Republic of Fiction @ 63

The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new...

Edo 2016: Much Ado About Nothing

The outcome of the Edo State Governorship Election held...

Pathway to Becoming the Most Desirable Country to Live in on Earth

“It takes a village to raise a child”, is...

A Rejoinder to Goodluck Jonathan: The Suspicion, The Resentment And The Consequences II

The Niger Delta is quite flux, and it is difficult to know from afar who is indeed a Freedom Fighter and who is not...