by Nnimmo | Mar 12, 2020 | Analysis, Biosafety, Climate Change, Culture, Environment, Governance, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
The world is in the grip of a virus that could change many things. Coronavirus, that tiny, invisible organism, has reminded humans that there are things that are simply not under our control. The virus has attacked the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak. It...
by Nnimmo | Mar 6, 2020 | Alternatives, Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Culture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
The world has been fatally seduced by petroleum. Multiple oil spills continue unabated in the oilfields of the Niger Delta. While the oil companies claim that they have bettered their sense of responsibility by detecting and remediating oil spill sites, these largely...
by Nnimmo | Feb 21, 2020 | Analysis, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Culture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Governance, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth, Stories
Will Ogoni be Cleaned? Recent news making the rounds is that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and their oil company partners, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Total Exploration and Production of Nigeria (TEPNG) and Nigerian Agip Oil...
by Nnimmo | Jan 23, 2020 | Analysis, Biosafety, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Governance, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
The tide of GMOs and deadly herbicides creeps on unsuspected consumers as they are literally being ambushed in the night. Twenty countries, including Togo and Malawi, have placed a ban on the use of glyphosate containing herbicides based on health and environmental...
by Nnimmo | Dec 20, 2019 | Biosafety, Corporate Capture, Culture, Environment, Food, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
Nigerians are not ready for GM Beans or any GMO for that matter. The commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) beans has been celebrated by the purveyors and promoters of the artificial variety. The Pod Borer-Resistant Cowpea (PBR-Cowpea) also known as Vigna...
by Nnimmo | Nov 22, 2019 | Alternatives, Analysis, Culture, Development alternatives, Environment, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
The colonisation of the Nature persists in its raw form and tends to be intensified as time goes by. The intensification of the colonisation of Nature increases as resources that humans have learned to transform for the preservation of current civilisations run out....
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