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Pascal Bekongfe Aboh
University of Calabar
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The Global Malaise of Oil Spillages and Legal Implications: Detailing Reactions from the Mauritius Oil Spillage and Malaysia Oil Spill Pascal Bekongfe Aboh; Precious Eni; Sunday Macaulay Uba; Mercy Ushiome Ajuka
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 2 (2026)
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It is often said that there is a price to every battle; a gladiator’s willingness to pay that price is what defines him. Global oil exploration has been a game of trade-offs. In order to dig deep and draw out this black gold, the trade-off has been aquatic life, flora and fauna, global warming, and oil spillage. This work navigates the global malaise of oil spillages using the experience of Mauritius as a trajectory for mapping out a more precautionary path to deep-sea oil exploration vis-à-vis simple lessons from Malaysian handling of their own oil spills. Within the journey, it is prospected that there will be lessons for Nigeria and African oil giants. The final summation is that a contingency plan must always be handy, and environmental dangers need to be taken more seriously than they are being considered right now. One must also recommend cross-border cooperation to fight the malaise of global oil spillages. The implications of unchecked regular spillages would be catastrophic doom for the planet and retrogression of the push for sustainable development, and this must be avoided.
Dangers of Climate Change Skepticism to Environmental Politics and Governance: Nigeria As a Case Study Pascal Bekongfe Aboh; Precious Edu Eni
Jurnal Ilmu Sosiologi Dialektika Kontemporer Vol 14, No 1 (2026)
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The climate change debate has been politicized to a worrisome level. Research shows a divide along conservative and liberal lines in the American political landscape regarding those who believe in the reality of anthropogenic climate change on the one hand and those who are sceptical about the existence of a clearly defined nexus between man and negative climate catastrophes on the other. Climate change skeptics seem to be members of the far-right while climate change believers seem to consist of the left regardless of the society being scrutinized. While climate change deniers keep being difficult, key figures like activist Greta Thunberg keep pushing the narratives of a better world for the next generation by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental politics and governance must find sanity in the middle. Using the doctrinal research method, this paper dissects climate change skepticism through the Nigerian prism. The finding is clear: the climate change debate is now a political reality and must be treated as such with clear governmental policies to combat the problem. The research finding shows that the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) is the agency responsible for tackling climate issues and weather challenges in Nigeria. The agency has a herculean task ahead of them but it takes collaborative effort to succeed. The annual Seasonal Climate Prediction (SCP) published regularly by NiMet seems to be the best attempt at tilting the balance of scepticism through adequate information dissemination.
Co-Authors Mercy Ushiome Ajuka Precious Edu Eni Precious Eni Sunday Macaulay Uba