In Ghana, vehicles don't queue up in fuel stations to purchase premium motor spirits (PMS). This is not the case in some other West African Countries. In this episode, Mr. Joseph Ataawiyueni - Senior Transmission Officer and Contractor Management at the Ghanian Transmission and Terminal Department, BOST; shade light on how the downstream sector of the Ghana oil industry is deregulated to ensure that market forces play a significant role in oil importation, storage, and distribution.
Covered in this podcast include:
Causes of global Energy price inflation. Was this crisis predicted? Opportunities for and threats for OPEC and fossil dependent economies, Russia's Energy influence, and opportunity for Nations to become energy self-sufficient, and some attempts to preempt future energy prices
The UK and indeed the world energy bills have soared leading increase in households energy bills. This increase is blamed on Covid-19, 2021, the Geopolitical conflict between the EU, USA, and Russia, etc. In this Podcast, Dr Babajide Nathaniel expressed his views on the cause, impacts, the future of renewables, and UK's potential energy self-sufficiency
In this podcast, Hannah Wakley shares her leading experience as a climate and environmental activist in Leicester. She provided insights on what local communities can do to add up the overall national programme on climate change mitigation. The idea is to support communities in building their demands from COP26 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Hannah is a member of Leicester Friends of the Earth and has over 15 years of experience working effectively with communities on relevant issues.
My guest on this Episode of the ScopeonTrent is Jessa Barder from Otago Museum, New Zealand. We discussed local community actions and bottom-up activities taken to address the climate crisis. Jessa is a climate activist and leading role model in “100 women, 100 words...Infinite Possibilities”. An intervention that showcases women working in science, technology, engineering, and Maths (STEM). She combines her communication expertise and interest at the Otago Museum in driving women in STEM and in facilitating honest conversations on climate issues. She will share her activities and provide in-depth suggestions on how communities can approach climate impacts, mitigation and possible adaptation, from New Zealand's perspective.
As a build up to #COP26 in Glasgow, extensive conversations around community resilience, and adaptation possibilities are commissioned to strengthen proposals and equip all proponents in the conference with what to ask from the UN and national governments.
Joining me this week to discuss local actions against climate change and how communities could adapt and mitigate climate crisis is Mel Gould. She was the Green Party’s Candidate for Leicester West in 2017 the UK 
General Elections. Mel is a community activist involved in several sustainable community initiatives such as Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace International and others aimed at building resilience, climate mitigation and green systems.
DR ANDREW SIMMONS clarifIES what age group defines a YOUTH. He buttress the point that YOUTH IS a period of transition rather than a quantitative understanding of age measurement. A period of transition from young dependency to adulthood, from school, family to working and independent living.
Dr Justin Udie
In this episode, Dr Andrew Simmons (Former Deputy Director and Ag Director of Youth Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London) shed light on the impacts of climate change on young people. He pointed out the vulnerabilities and options for adaptation. He re-emphasised the vulnerability of Africa and highlighted the reasons for the vulnerabilities. Some of the point raised includes Poverty and corrupt practices, lack of clear and pragmatic knowledge by relevant stakeholders in the African climate discuss, and shortage in social development knowledge. Whilst arguing that the most vulnerable are the least concerned, he said that lack of clear methodology for adaptation and mitigation is another factor forcing the vulnerability limits of youths.
Most importantly is that national governments have to dwell so much on welfarist approach of dealing with projects which have the tendency of forcing vulnerabilities. Furthermore, regional organisations and those responsible for climate solutions have a "Project Approach" towards climate change adaptation and mitigation which is not efficient. It is suggested that a pragmatic "Sustainable Programmatic Strategy" could provide more desired adaptation and mitigation solutions. Dr Simmons seizes the opportunity to call on developing countries to use the Glasgow meeting to hold those heavy polluters to account and ensure that the take-homes are clear and pragmatic.
Dr Justin Udie
In this episode of my series on "DOES LEADERSHIP COME FROM GOD, Wale Adekanla (a popular US-based Nigerian Motivational Speaker and Leadership Coach) attempt to address critical question around African Leadership whilst exploring the position of God in Leadership. Highlights of his views include the mindset before leadership position as it impacts on transformation, how vision is sacrificed by sentiments leading to mediocrity and complete lack of family and cultural value system. Principally, Wale argued that God has invested in man the ability to make choices and whichever choice he makes, he gets a maximum result.
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Dr Justin Udie
The question of "would Africans return?" is based on the growing racial discrimination against Africans in the West. This has resulted in several protests in recent times. Are these issues associated with the slave trade issues? Would Africans begin to find their ways back to the motherland? How prepared is the motherland Africa for the possible return of her people? In this episode, Akin Oyawale - researcher at Warwick University, shed in-depth opinion on these issues - contextualising and illuminating areas that would need critical unpacking for a possible Return of Africans under a worst-case scenario.
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Dr Justin Udie
At the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak, its declaration as a global pandemic and seeing how devastating the virus was for the first world (with world-class medical infrastructures), Experts, Commentators, NGOs and reputable individuals wept ahead for Africa and predicted that bodies were going to litter streets. According to the Telegraph, "The coronavirus pandemic could kill up to 190,000 people in Africa over the next 12 months and “smoulder” in ‘“transmission hotspots” for years, the World Health Organization has warned" (Will Brown wrote on 8 May 2020). More so, there are still conspiracy theories on the truth about the virus, its origin, vaccine as a depopulation strategy, etc.
In view of these, I interviewed Adaku Efuribe - A Pharmacists, Health and wellbeing Consultant and UN SDG Action Campaign partner; who has shared opinions on the covid-19 situation across several media platforms.
Dr Justin Udie
At the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak, its declaration as a global pandemic and seeing how devastating the virus was for the first world (with world-class medical infrastructures), Experts, Commentators, NGOs and reputable individuals wept ahead for Africa and predicted that bodies were going to litter streets. According to the Telegraph, "The coronavirus pandemic could kill up to 190,000 people in Africa over the next 12 months and “smoulder” in ‘“transmission hotspots” for years, the World Health Organization has warned" (Will Brown wrote on 8 May 2020)
More so, there are still conspiracy theories on the truth about the virus, its origin, vaccine as a depopulation strategy, etc.
In view of these, this episode is an interview with Dr Eric Chinaeke - a medical Pharmacologist and practitioner with CSL Behring. A biopharmaceutical company based in Pennsylvania, USA and manufactures plasma derived recombinant therapeutic products in the rare disease space. Eric shed light on the phenomena and as much as possible clear doubts with convincing examples that could support the prevention and reduce the spread of COVID-19 in Africa and other parts of the world.
Dr Justin Udie