Deforestation, Floods & Climate Crisis
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified Africa as one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change though it contributes...
Severe Floods Ahead in Lagos & Across Nigeria
Lagosians faced the most severe flooding in years in July. About the same time, the federal government also issued a flood alert to 28...
Shell is Liable for Oil Spills in Niger Delta
Farmers from Goi, Oruma and Ikot Ada Udo (in Rivers and Bayelsa states) won a lawsuit against Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, at the...
Floods and the Climate Crisis
Flash floods killed at least 11 people in Suleja, Niger state, in the last week of July. At least 4 persons were also killed...
United in Struggle Against the Climate Crisis – for System Change NOW!
More than 6 million people took part in protests and strikes demanding global action to end the climate crisis, during a “Global Week for...
Save the Earth – REBEL!
In May 1959, Science News warned that there would be 25% warming of the earth by the year 2000 compared to 1850 (at the...
Climate Change and Capitalism
Capitalism is causing poor people across the world to suffer the devastating effects of climate change. Locally we have our own peculiar narration to...
Floods and Climate Change
From Katsina to Bayelsa, from Kwara to Adamawa, hundreds of thousands of people have suffered from the recent flooding. This is what climate change...
The Threat of Climate Change Remains
In the last three years global carbon dioxide emissions have barely increased and they were slightly lower last year. However, the impact of existing...
Climate Change – makes socialism essential!
Despite President Trump’s claims that it is a Chinese plot, climate change is real and is already having major impacts across the world. We...
Paris Climate Change Deal – too little!
by Drew Povey and Segun Ogun
Most governments in the world signed up to the Paris agreement in mid-December. This claimed a goal of keeping...
SYSTEM CHANGE AND NOT CLIMATE CHANGE
Together We Can Stop Climate Change
Climate change is due to the activities of major companies, mainly those based in the industrialised countries. In...
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Beyond Reversal of the Dreadlocks Ban: the Criminalization of African Identity...
Earlier in April, the Niger State Governor, Umar Bago announced a ban on dreadlocks in the state. Anyone with dreadlocks hairstyles would be arrested...
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The 1989 Anti-SAP Revolt
In 1989, thousands rose in protest against the IMF and World Bank-inspired Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). This supported the lavish lifestyles of corrupt government...