By: Abudu Olalekan The rain came in sheets. Streets turned to rivers. In Bali, 45-year-old fisherman Wayan stood ankle-deep in murky water, staring at his flooded home. “Last year, the water rose to my knees. This time? It took my boat,” he said. “What’s next?” The UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has an answer: more….
By: Abudu Olalekan The water is poison. Fish are dead. Children play near pipelines that leak toxic sludge. In the village of Bodo, Mary Ekpe remembers when the rivers teemed with life. Now, her nets come up empty. Her grandchildren have never seen a healthy fish from the waters their ancestors fished. “We drink this…
By: Abudu Olalekan Brussels. Thursday. Ministers are sweating — and not just from the late summer heat. They’re fighting over numbers. Big ones. The kind that could define Europe’s climate future. An internal note, seen by Reportersroom, lays it bare: EU nations are split. Deeply. On 2035 emissions targets — the next big step under…
By: Abudu Olalekan Nigeria’s climate investment is in the spotlight, and it’s not looking good. The country only invested 19% of the $4.928 billion it received between 2015 and 2021. That’s a staggering amount of money, but the results? Not so impressive. Stakeholders are raising eyebrows, and rightly so. The report, “The State of Climate…
By: Abudu Olalekan The world’s moving on. Oil? Gas? They’re getting old. Like cassette tapes in an iPhone world. Renewables are here. Solar. Wind. Green energy. It’s not a trend—it’s the new normal. And Nigeria? We’re standing at the edge. One foot in the past, one trying to step forward. Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, head…
By: Abudu Olalekan It’s 4 p.m. in Ogijo, Ogun State. The sky’s not blue—hasn’t been in months. It’s a murky gray-brown, like someone spilled ash and motor oil in the clouds. A mom yells from her cracked concrete doorway: “Come inside, Jide! Stop digging by the pothole!” That pothole? Filled with slag—crusty, sharp industrial waste…
