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Here's What Extreme Heat Looks Like: Profoundly Unequal (Published 2020)

For the past 60 years, every decade has been hotter than the last, and 2020 is poised to be among the hottest years ever.

This Is Inequity at the Boiling Point

It was a record 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Baghdad in July, and 100 degrees above the Arctic Circle this June. Australia shattered its summer heat records as wildfires, fueled by prolonged drought, turned the sky fever red. For 150 years of industrialization, the combustion of coal, oil and gas has steadily released heat-trapping gases i

Mongabay

Independent

The Independent •

In Nigeria, a new crisis deadlier than Boko Haram is rising

In Nigeria’s northwest region, each emerging morning is met with echoes of tragedies.

Men and women and children clutch their radios in wooden decks at the threshold of their huts to hear the news of attacks and neighbours who died. Some days, smokes of burnt houses in far-flung villages will float into the clouds until droplets of the spring rain smother their charred ruins. When the deaths come in this country, which hasn’t known the pleasure of peace for decades, people typically try to abso
The Independent •

Opinion: Why Nigeria's hate speech and social media bills should make people worried

For the first time, I’m writing out of panic and not pleasure. It’s an uncomfortable feeling, but I’m doing it because my country – Nigeria – is about to take a turn for the worse.

Perhaps the government is teasing autocracy. If it wasn’t, a death penalty for “hate speech” wouldn’t have been able to get as far as it already has. Nor would an internet shutdown as a way of regulating what people say on social media in a democracy. After all, what is liberty without freedom of speech?

Nigeria is

TRT World

Earth Island Journal

Earth Island Journal •

Crude Injustice

STANDING BY THE RIVER GOI, Eric Dooh’s face shines with sweat. It is wet season in the Niger Delta’s Ogoniland region and the humidity is brutal. The surface of the river shines as well — with a veil of slick crude oil. “My parents were great farmers,” Dooh says, pointing toward the large swath of land, now overgrown with weeds, by the edge of the river where he once worked with his parents to produce yam, water yam, maize, cassava, and groundnuts. “Whenever the farm was harvested we had enough

South China Morning Post

El Pais

El País •

Umar Salisu dio a luz su hijo muerto por culpa de la malaria

Una sanitaria extrae sangre a una madre para detectar un posible caso de paludismo en Ajah, un distrito de Lagos, Nigeria, el país del mundo con mayor incidencia.

Artículos estrictamente de opinión que responden al estilo propio del autor. Estos textos de opinión han de basarse en datos verificados y ser respetuosos con las personas aunque se critiquen sus actos. Todas las tribunas de opinión de personas ajenas a la Redacción de EL PAÍS llevarán, tras la última línea, un pie de autor —por conoc

The Global Fund

Roads & Kingdoms

Roads & Kingdoms •

A Cold Room for a Warming World

In the courtyard of Obinze Fruit & Vegetable market, haggling has peaked for the morning. Retailers, drawn from far-flung villages and suburbs of Imo state, southeast Nigeria and neighboring city of Port Harcourt, crowd the contours of the market hunting for bargains and fresh fruits. On a wood-framed table, under a trading booth made of stilts, rusty zinc, and leaky tarpaulin, dozens of vendors display lettuce, Chinese cabbage, purple cabbage, green beans, onions, cauliflower, strawberries, bro

African Arguments

African Arguments •

"Young people are not just the future of Nigeria. They are Nigeria today.”

Increasing youth representation in Nigeria’s closed political system will be an uphill battle, but Not Too Young To Run activists are ready to fight.

Near the heart of government in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, a defiant Chioma Agwuegbo thrusts her placard into the air. Her voice adds to the swelling chants coming from demonstrators all around her.

After a while, she wriggles to the front of the hundreds-strong crowd assembled near the National Assembly and Presidential Villa at Aso Rock. With her
African Arguments •

Biafra 50 years on: Remembering, regretting, repeating history?

Half a century on from the 30 May declaration of independence from Nigeria, calls for secession are growing again.

As he casts his mind back to 50 years ago, a look of vacant sadness crosses Christopher Ejiofor’s face. Today, the still-muscular 71-year-old is a traditional chief in Enugu state. But back in 1967, he had freshly graduated from studying aeronautics engineering in the UK.

Unbeknownst to the young man at the time though, events were to rapidly overtake any aspirations he had to bui

Kennedy School Review

Fighting Coronavirus in a World That Never Stops Talking – KENNEDY SCHOOL REVIEW

It is not my pleasure to endorse tightening control over information creation and publicity. As a journalist who thrives on the vast benefits of a free press and the newly rapid pace at which news travels, only the coronavirus pandemic provided a rare moment to rethink my position on information regulation. The world, in managing future epidemics, would fare better if information becomes more regulated and centralized – in its sources, quantity, and quality.

True, communication technologies hav

Media Diversified

Media Diversified •

Can President Muhammadu Buhari now triumph over the issues facing Nigeria?

Muhammadu Buhari’s election triumph was one thing, but working to overcome the challenges in Nigeria is now quite another. Orji Sunday discusses the issues the new president must now face.

Being Nigeria’s president is a painful pleasure. After all, most leaderships, if not all are driven principally by the premise of flashy honours and thorny responsibility. So when Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president elect is sworn in on May 29, for a second four-year term, it will be a sober celebration dri

The Sun

The Sun Nigeria •

When your country is second choice – The Sun Nigeria

Activist Malala Yousafzai said, “I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country, it is like my mother and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it .”

Her words survived through the years to become a timeless reprove to many Nigerians who, in their trendy frenzy, are forcing their children on America; leaving a hilarious lash on their nation, Nigeria, our own America.

It is called birth tourism. Birth tourism, according Wikipedia, is to travel to another country

M.S. Magazine

Ms. Magazine •

In a Country Where Widows Are Witches

Christiana, 49, had been traveling from one forest to the next for the past three days. Her water gourd was now light, and her feet wearily ruffled heaps of dry leaves trafficking in the dark surface of the forest floor. With her was her 14 year old son.

Her sight fell upon bones hanging on the branch of the tree bearing flock of talking parrots. There was, on the floor, the skull of a man. The chaff of his perished flesh gave a fetid smell. The skull had a hollow and maggots walked to and fro
YNaija •

Opinion: When a nation decides to forget her past

When David Lowenthal wrote those beautiful words in the ancient, memorable, annals of history, he delivered a vital counsel to those who would, in stark error, contemplate fiddling with history; the knowledge bank of all ages. He desired to have a generation of individuals and nations who would render to history her greatly cherished place of pride and above all a swift passage to posterity and the humanity therein.

He wished that from a single age to another, the vital knowledge of the past wo

Liberty Magazine

A Innocent Beginning

In 2002 Muhammed Yusuf created a religious complex that had an Islamic school and a mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern state of Borno. Not many could have envisaged that the establishment would turn-out to be a shrouded cradle for Nigeria’s future nightmare.The school was particularly popular with poor Muslim families from across Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon, Niger, and Chad. It wasn’t the first time such a religious complex had been established in Nigeria, but its teaching

Equal Times

Equal Times •

In one of the most religious countries in the world, Nigerian churches and mosques have joined the fight against the coronavirus

On a Sunday morning in April, the rising sun casts shadows over St Dominic’s Catholic Church in Yaba, a lively neighbourhood in the biggest city in the most populous country in Africa. The street leading to the church on the Lagos mainland holds an unusual serenity. Just over a month ago, it would have been filled with the tables of sellers of sacramental objects, their faces bowed downwards in the holy way of prayer, with rosaries tangled between their fingers.

On this day, however, the church