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Lithium: Nigeria’s new oil, old mistake? (opens the original)
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Oil was supposed to change everything. It didn’t. It made us a major exporter who imported refined petrol, a billion-dollar earner whose oil communities drank polluted water. The United Nations Environment Programme said it would take 25 to 30 years and $1bn just to start cleaning Ogoniland. Now, lithium has put Nigeria back on the global map. Last July, President Bola Tinubu inaugurated what the government described as West Africa’s largest lithium processing plant in Nasarawa. Less than three
Just energy transition: Can Nigeria, Ghana turn $410bn into power? (opens the original)
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On paper, Nigeria and Ghana have done the hard part. Nigeria has a Climate Change Act, an Electricity Act, an Energy Transition Plan targeting net zero by 2060, and a new NDC. By July 2026, 16 states had taken over their electricity markets. Ghana has a Renewable Energy Act, efficiency laws, an updated NDC with 47 programmes, and a Ministry of Energy and Green Transition. The laws are signed. The agencies exist. The press releases have been read. So, why are we still asking the same question? Be
Lights off, gas on: Why Nigeria and Ghana can’t quit fossil fuels yet (opens the original)
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For millions in Lagos and Accra, the energy transition isn’t happening at a climate summit. It’s happening every night, at the sound of a diesel generator. Nigeria and Ghana are being asked to do two things at once: expand electricity to power homes and factories, and cut emissions to meet global climate goals. One promises lights. The other promises a future. But the reality on the ground is messier. Nigeria’s national grid collapsed 12 times in 2024, with further collapses in 2025. Ghana has f
New Ebonyi politics: Deliver votes or be sacked (opens the original)
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“Let the front page of a newspaper show it tomorrow: we will remove a council chairman who did not win in his local government. We will use your councillors and remove you.” That was Governor Francis Nwifuru, speaking to 13 newly sworn-in local government chairmen in Abakaliki this month. Not a warning about poor service delivery. Not a charge to fix roads or clinics. A warning about votes. In one sentence, the governor turned an elected office into a party assignment. The job is no longer to go
GMOs: Fake hybrids and the fight to own Nigeria’s food (opens the original)
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Across Nigerian farms, market stalls and WhatsApp groups, one word is triggering fear, hope and fury in equal measure: Genetically Modified Organism. To some, it is the scientific answer to hunger — cowpea that yields 20 bags instead of 4, maize that survives drought and pests. To others, it is a Trojan horse — seeds we cannot save, owned by foreign corporations, planted in a country where farmers are already being killed off their land. The anxiety is no longer just about safety. It is about so
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