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Taming Nigeria’s oil spillage and gas flaring Scourge (Part 2) By Jerome-Mario Utomi      Listen to article The Act (the Harmful Waste (Special Criminal Positions etc), Act 1988, referred to in part 1 of this piece, it was argued only focuses on the commission of any action or omission by persons without lawful authority. Thus, where an organization has a licence to store waste resulting from production, they are seemingly omitted from the ambit of the Act, but the law failed to take into consideration the inadequate storage or inadequate waste management system by licen...

Taming Nigeria’s Oil spillages and gas flaring Scourge By Jerome-Mario Utomi Listen to article The recent news report that the Okordia-Rumekpe 14-inch crude truck line operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) discharged some 213 barrels of crude oil into Ikarama community in Bayelsa, has again brought to our consciousness that though Nigeria prides itself as the giant of Africa and the most populous black nation in the world, yet, it is still riddled with third world challenges. Essentially, while clarifying that an estimated 1.34 hectares of land was polluted by the leak...

Nationhood; Going Beyond Hausa, Yoruba And Igbo Arrangement Nationhood; Going Beyond Hausa, Yoruba And Igbo Arrangement Some leadership traits that were useful in the past might not be so today, because we are facing a situation that is totally different from the one that prevailed in the late 1990s or even in the early 2000s. We must, therefore, find new forms of leadership, because the sophisticated ventures we are considering today requires a higher level of initiative and creativity  — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirate. Looki...

Still A Wobbly Tripod ​ By Jerome-Mario Utomi​ Listen to article In one of my opinion pieces published about four years ago and entitled; Wobbly Tripod and Doctrine of Trinity, I narrated how as a young lad, I grappled with the teaching about the doctrine of Trinity. To refresh our minds, it was during my catechism class as a Catholic Christian and the topic of Trinity posed a huge task to me. This doctrine is a dogma which teaches that God, the Supreme Being, is actually three persons in one. These three persons, as I was later told, are God the Father, God the Son and God the Ho...

Exactly a week ago, Christians in Nigeria joined their counterparts across the globe to mark/celebrate the great feast of Easter. Each time Nigerians celebrate this great feast, it’s not only a tradition but ritual of the sort that torrents of messages from public office holders in Nigeria, religious, socioeconomic and political leaders’ fly around the country. Take as instance, President Buhari, in his 2021 Easter message signed by his Spokesman, Femi Adesina, reminded Nigerians that Easter celebration is an opportunity to renew hope and faith, show love and appreciation to one anothe...