By: Oyetola Owolabi S. A house. A small farm. A patch of inherited soil. For more than a billion people, it all feels uncertain. A new global assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Land Coalition and CIRAD paints a troubling picture: nearly one in four adults worldwide believe they could lose…
By: Abudu Olalekan Monday morning. Abuja air thick with generator fumes and stale coffee. Another workshop. Another “strategic plan review.” But this one? Felt different. You could cut the tension with a machete. See, Nigeria’s Climate Justice Alliance (NCJA) – that ragtag crew of activists, researchers, farmers, and pissed-off youth – just wrapped their two-day…
By: Abudu Olalekan Tuesday morning in Abuja carried a heaviness beyond humidity – more like tension, thick in the air. Officials sat packed together, uneasy, focused on an issue larger than the sputtering AC vibrating near the wall. Cooling vaccines or simply surviving work hours involves more than turning dials. This ties back to gaps…
By: Oluwaseun Lawal It used to be routine. Last Saturday of the month. 7 a.m. No movement. Just brooms and buckets. That exercise might be coming back. Lagos State Government says the suspended monthly environmental sanitation could resume on or before March. The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, dropped the hint on…
By: Abudu Olalekan Funny how moments come. This one feels sharp to Antonio Guterres. Things aren’t sitting right with the UN’s top official when he looks at the Security Council. Missing Africa from the permanent lineup strikes him as plainly unjust. He sees no good reason for it to stay that way. Furious words spilled…
By: Kehinde Kenku Last year, I called it a waste war. It felt dramatic at the time, but it was honest. Lagos was battling refuse, and both the government and the people had their share of blame. Residents needed to act better. The Lagos State Government, through LAWMA and its operators, needed to fix access,…
