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Oil Theft Pollutes Our Nation
To say that Nigeria is being stolen is an understatement. It is a sordid situation. Shocking stories from the oil and gas sector continue to hit the news. Rather than being numbed by the monstrous pillaging of the...
Not an African COP
Countries that have been on the receiving end of climate change have to carefully examine the narratives driving the conversations and negotiations at the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
Biosafety in Shambles
We cannot afford to keep gambling with our biosafety. To do so is to set ourselves up for intergenerational consequences; needless to mention the current crises that are being exacerbated. Genetic modification and other new technologies including gene editing and...
Creativity and Organizing for Change: Honouring Comrade Ihonde at 80
Today we have the rare privilege of sitting at the feet of Comrade Jonathan Ihonde, to salute him on his 80th birthday and to learn from his revolutionary wisdom. This is the third edition of what we call Learning from the Wise - a deliberate platform for forging a...
Waving off Climate Action in the Heatwaves
Climate change is a result of human activities with reference to production, movement, and consumption of goods. A whole lot of these goods are products of transformation of natural resources, not to meet the basic needs of humans but to aid the drive for...
Nnimmo Bassey Donates Library/Resource Centre to the Nkwot Community
By Ekemini Simon An environmental activist, Nnimmo Bassey has donated a resource centre/library to his community, Nkwot in Ikono local government area of Akwa Ibom State. The resource centre located at St. Mary Secondary School, Ikot Nseyen in Nkwot Community is solar...
A Call for Justice
The Niger Delta is a territory under siege. This siege did not begin today. It didn’t begin yesterday. The siege has been prominent since the 15th Century. The siege has disrupted our ways of living, our communities, our cultures, and our spirituality. It has brought...
Ikarama Paradox
There are communities in the Niger Delta that would compete to have the dubious notoriety of being the oil spills capital of the world due to the regularity of oil spill incidents they experience. Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State is...
Learning for Change
The wise is a knowledge holder and keeper. Learning is a lifelong process. In other words, we never graduate from the schools of life as long as we are still on planet earth. We learn to walk, to speak intelligibly and we learn to be part of our communities. Many...
Fiddling while the Planet Burns
The third report to emerge from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the span of eight months has again exposed the folly of humankind on its addiction to dirty energy sources. The report clearly shows that there must be significant reduction in the...
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