Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele will defend his doctoral thesis at the Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), in a few weeks. His thesis is on environmental governance, energy and environmental justice and NGO-led activism on natural resource extraction in Nigeria. He taught Introduction to Sociology to first-year students here at MUN and has research publications to his credit. Previously, he earned his first PhD in the Department of Communication and Language Arts at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was a media and communication lecturer in Nigeria for five years before coming to Canada.