Opinion: Staring down pollution, a catalyst to combating climate change

by Amusa Temitope Victor In the running of a community in a hitch-free way, everyone has a role regardless of the nature of jobs they do: Physicians, Nurses, Teachers, Street Cleaners, Plumbers, Farmers, Traders all have very important roles they play. In like manner, everything existing in nature each has a role in ensuring a... Read More

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Carbon emission, climate change, nigeria, opinion, Pollution, World Environment Day

October 19, 2016

#ForTheRecord: My father may not have died in vain | Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr on justice for the people of Ogoni

by Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. Twenty years ago today my father and eight other Ogoni men were woken from their sleep and hanged in a prison yard in southern Nigeria. When the news filtered out, shock and outrage reverberated around the world, and everyone from the Queen to Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela condemned the executions. What... Read More

Guardian UK, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr, Ken Wiwa, Military, nigeria, Ogoni, Oil, Petroleum, Pollution, Shell

July 4, 2014

Casey Haslem: Keeping your home water supply clean (30 Days, 30 Voices)

by Casey Haslem ”Contaminated water can cause serious health conditions, such as neurological disorders, reproductive disorders, and gastrointestinal issues.” Contamination of a home’s water supply occurs far more frequently than you may think. Water contamination can happen in any type of water, including drinking water. Contaminated water can cause serious health conditions, such as neurological disorders, reproductive disorders, and gastrointestinal issues. There are several types of contaminants... Read More

30 Days, 30 voices, Casey Haslem, Keeping your home water supply clean, Pollution, Water pollution, Water Supply, ynaija

April 3, 2014

Air pollution + 8 other things that kill your brain slowly

by Life Span The brain is affected by factors we don’t always look into in our daily lives. Everything from the food we eat, the little bad habits we’ve formed over the years, and extent to which we use the brain: all these factors play a role in the development of our mental power, sometimes... Read More

June 9, 2013

Opinion: Niger Delta pollution – A tragedy of the commons

by Maximilian O. Obiakor If we do not strive to create a new set of institutions to protect the common- property, then they will continue to be privately explored, exploited and utterly destroyed at the expense of all. When Garrett Hardin in 1968 was describing how shared environmental resources are overused and eventually depleted on the... Read More

Niger Delta, Oil industry, political hindrance, Pollution, sabotage, tragedy of the commons

June 4, 2013

The woman working to clean up Nigeria’s dirty oil, The Independent profiles Diezani Alison-Madueke

by Nick Kochan Mrs Alison-Madueke, the daughter of a tribal chief, is seen as Africa’s oil tsar. Well-resourced gangs are diverting some 10 per cent of Nigeria’s oil production and channelling the money into kidnapping, piracy and terrorism. The result is not only funds lost to the country’s exchequer but also devastating damage to the environment... Read More

BP, community, Diezani Alison Madueke, independent, kidnap, Minister, nigeria, Oil, Pollution, Shell

April 25, 2013

No kidding: Make noise and go to jail – Gov’t agency warns

by Isi Esene Making noise may soon be a punishable offence if information out of the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) is anything to go by. The Agency, through its Coordinator, Olanrewaju Anjorin, disclosed that making noise will be punishable by imprisonment or fine, or both. The gazette made available to the... Read More

noise, Olanrewaju Anjorin, Pollution, regulation

February 5, 2013

Opinion: Shell: Our perpetual scapegoat

by Chimeka Garricks For years, Big Oil has alleged that the bulk of spills are caused by sabotage (for example, according to a Reuters article, Shell admits that 198 spills occurred last year, of which 37 were caused by operational failure and 161 by sabotage). But, perhaps because of our default-mode distrust of corporations,... Read More

Niger Delta, nigeria, Oil spill, pipeline vandalisation, Pollution, scapegoat, Shell, SPDC

Opinion: Staring down pollution, a catalyst to combating climate change

#ForTheRecord: My father may not have died in vain | Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr on justice for the people of Ogoni

Casey Haslem: Keeping your home water supply clean (30 Days, 30 Voices)

Air pollution + 8 other things that kill your brain slowly

Opinion: Niger Delta pollution – A tragedy of the commons

The woman working to clean up Nigeria’s dirty oil, The Independent profiles Diezani Alison-Madueke

No kidding: Make noise and go to jail – Gov’t agency warns

Opinion: Shell: Our perpetual scapegoat

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